Erik Larson Quotes

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

The 1890s was a decade when life began to change in urban America. Modern conveniences that we now take for granted came into use; women's roles became less restrictive; and San Francisco, a port city with influences from all over the world, was a lively place in which to reside.

It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is.

I had always thought that Gurgaon was some village, it was only when I came here that I realized that it is nothing less than a world-class city.

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.

Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

New York is kind of a mythological city in may ways.

Trade carried by sea has grown fourfold since 1970 and is still growing. In 2011, the 360 commercial ports of the United States took in international goods worth $1.73 trillion, or eighty times the value of all U.S. trade in 1960.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

New York is a fantastic city.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

New York is the greatest city in the world.

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

New York is a woman / holding, according to history, / a rag called liberty with one hand / and strangling the earth with the other.

Urban growth, ethnic and religious diversity. and the spread of large corporations destroyed the reality of Protestant, middle-class power in the region and the ability of their ideology and the pioneer symbol to remain uncontested. The region's leadership class came to include Catholics as well as Protestants, corporate leaders, professionals, and small producers.

The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!