Robert Moses

Quotes by Robert Moses

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Urban planner · American · 1888–1981

American urban planner (1888–1981)

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“Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.”

“Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.”

“Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.”

“Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.”

“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”

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“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”
— Robert Moses
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“You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metro...”
— Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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“Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.”
— Robert Moses
creating positive change

“Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.”
— Robert Moses
progress

“Have no fear of change as such and on the other hand no liking for it merely for its own sake.”
— Robert Moses
creating positive change

“Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.”
— Robert Moses
progress