Jacobs may refer to:
- People
- Places
- Jacobs, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Jacobs, Wisconsin, USA
- St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada
- Education
- Jacobs School of Music, in Indiana University, Indiana, USA
- Jacobs University Bremen, in Germany
- Other uses
- Jacobs (coffee), German company
- Jacobs Aircraft Engine Company, former American aircraft engine company
- Jacobs Engineering Group, American based engineering company
- Jacobs Field, former name of Progressive Field in Cleveland, Ohio
- ST Jacobs, an Indonesian tug.
Famous quotes containing the word jacobs:
“... a family I know ... bought an acre in the country on which to build a house. For many years, while they lacked the money to build, they visited the site regularly and picnicked on a knoll, the site’s most attractive feature. They liked so much to visualize themselves as always there, that when they finally built they put the house on the knoll. But then the knoll was gone. Somehow they had not realized they would destroy it and lose it by supplanting it with themselves.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“To approach a city ... as if it were [an] ... architectural problem ... is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life.... The results ... are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)
“What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles?... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia: What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable: The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.”
—Jane Jacobs (b. 1916)