I am a home builder. I have to be an optimist.

I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my…

— Tommy Chong

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

— Christopher Reeve

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be…

— Helen Keller

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we…

— Aristotle

I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia,…

— Edward Leedskalnin

Donald Trump, as a businessman, he's not much of a builder and he's not much of dealmaker and he certainly isn't very good at…

— David Frum

It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians…

— Pat Robertson

Builders insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to do with…

— Jerry I. Porras

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

— Renzo Piano

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much…

— Dennis Hastert

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field,…

— David Brock

“You cannot permanently destroy what you didn't build because the builder can always choose to build again.”

— Khuliso Mamathoni

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.

— Liam Hemsworth