Public Gathering Quotes

I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

First of all, let me say, 1:15 in the morning, for 20,000 people to still be here, I wasn't the winner, tennis was. That's awesome. I don't know if I've ever felt so good here before.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.

The fact that people gather with placards is abnormal. Other countries would not allow that. Our democracy is in many cases excessive.

You could drop me off in the middle of a sea of people, and I'm happy.

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.

MSG Sphere London will provide a home where like-minded communities can come together to not only interact with the performance, but also with each other.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

It’s a public event. We [television] should be covering it.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

I plan on getting out there and mixing with the crowd. I want to show everyone what happens in Times Square not from a distance, but from right there in the crowd.

The crowds in Milwaukee are awesome.

The saloonkeeper is the only man who keeps open house in the ward. It is his business to entertain. It does not matter that he does not select his guests; that convention is useless among them. In fact, his democracy is one element of his strength. His face is the common meeting ground of his neighbors—and he supplies the stimulus which renders social life possible; there is an accretion of intelligence that comes to him in his business. He hears the best stories. He is the first to get accurate information as to the latest political deals and social mysteries. The common talk of the day passes through his ears and he is known to retain that which is the most interesting.

Reformers have long observed city people loitering on busy corners, hanging around in candy stores and bars and drinking soda popon stoops, and have passed a judgment, the gist of which is: "This is deplorable! If these people had decent homes and a more private or bosky outdoor place, they wouldn't be on the street!" That judgment represents a profound misunderstanding of cities. It makes no more sense than to drop in at a testimonial banquet in a hotel and conclude that if these people had wives who could cook, they would give their parties at home.

You can’t throw a park down and think everybody is going to mix and be happy and share picnic tables and sing songs together.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

Long before Starbucks popularized the phrase 'the third place' - somewhere to interact outside of work and home - it was neighborhood restaurants that helped to define places like Union Square.

I think I miss just being able to go out on the street and have fun.

Khap Panchayats are a group of people who come together. There is no bar on people to assemble in this country.

Parks and public space are … important to a democratic society because they are the only places where people meet as equals.

I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.