#tree

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. ↗

— William Blake

#buy #children #dance #experience #hath

Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#child #clean #cover #good #ought

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel. ↗

— John Keats

#displayed #energies #fine #grace #hated

I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#i #keep #made #once #says

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#down #elves #focused #graceful #grounded

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#affordable housing #believe #better #bring #build

I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#doctor #down #elevator #exciting #find

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#behind #curtain #design #graphic #graphic design

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#help #improve #out #property #take

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#city #here #other #safer #streets