Smethwick Rangers Quotes & Sayings

The same process is now occurring in the developing world, but much more quickly. The population density of metropolitan Beijing has collapsed since 1970, falling from 425 people per hectare to 65. Indian cities are following; Brazil's are ahead. And suburbanisation has a long way to run. Beijing is now about as crowded as metropolitan Chicago was at its most closely packed, in the 1920s. Since then Chicago's density has fallen by almost three-quarters. This is welcome. Romantic notions of sociable, high-density living - notions pushed, for the most part, by people who themselves occupy rather spacious residences - ignore the squalor and lack of privacy to be found in Kinshasa, Mumbai or the other crowded cities of the poor world. Many of them are far too dense for — Anonymous

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself. — Rita Mae Brown

Every individual is representative of the whole ... and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of mass movements and sociology. — Anais Nin

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen. — James Weldon Johnson

[Commuting by bicycle is] an absolutely essential part of my day. It's mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out. — James L. Jones

WHO SHALL not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy" (Rev 15:4). He — Arthur W. Pink

I stood at the end of the street, catching snow in my mouth, and laughed softly to myself as I realized that without my insomnia and anxiety and pain I'd never have been awake to see the city that never sleeps asleep and blanketed up for winter. I smiled and felt silly, but in the best possible way. — Jenny Lawson

A FRIGHTENED, ANGRY, FOUR-HUNDRED-POUND, antisocial chef with a combat shotgun never leads to anything good. — Dean Koontz