Mary Wesley Quotes

I love New York. I can walk half a block and I'm at the grocery store. I don't have to drive anywhere.

My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.

People crave community, more efficient living, and easier access to the places they want to go.

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both.

Liveability means being able to take your kids to school, go to work, see a doctor, drop by the grocery or Post Office, go out to dinner and a movie, and play with your kids at the park - all without having to get in your car.

All through my twenties, I lived in very walkable cities - Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New York.

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

I love Decatur. It is diverse, politically progressive, family oriented and I can walk everywhere.

Everywhere I go, I see incredible examples of communities that have a vision for transportation and how it will impact the quality of life, mobility, economics and opportunity.

I like being able to walk or ride my bike to restaurants and do different things.

Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives - and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.

Where I grew up, there was one supermarket, one school, one hairdresser, and that was it. It was a very small community.

The major perk of living in Brooklyn is that everything is there. If I did not want to leave Brooklyn, I could stay there the whole time.

When you live in the projects, everything you need is in a mile radius: a basketball court, an indoor gym, a school, a grocery store, a shopping center.

Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography, and how close you live to your work and a grocery store affects your mobility.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

I always have my backpack.

There is something about being in a remote town where anything other than green fields, trees and Saturday football club is very exciting and thrilling.

I think that continuity is the most important way to create a city that functions properly and has a competitive edge in the international era.

The fact that I live in New York, a city that thrives on accessibility, might explain why I was slow to grasp the appeal of Alexa. Here we have bodegas on every corner, most open 24 hours, in case you need to pick up a roll of toilet paper or a bottle of hot sauce in the middle of the night.

I come from a one-by-three-mile town: Seaford.

I didn't live in L.A. I lived in Oklahoma, and I liked to do normal things with normal people.

I've always found people with physical disabilities interesting to watch: how the dynamics of their body work, what makes them move this way or that.