Quotes by Robert Moses

“Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.”

“If you elect a matinee idol mayor, youre going to have a musical comedy administration.”

“[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.”

“He continued to be and infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy”

“Frank Lloyd Wrights inverted oatmeal dish and silo with their awkward cantilevering, their jaundiced skin and the ingenious spiral ramp leading down past the abstractions which mirror the tortured maladjustments of our time.”

“Those who can, build,”

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

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

Once you sink that first stake theyll never make you pull it up.