I build only living stones--men.

“Hoshino found Oshima an appealing young man. Intelligent, well groomed, obviously from a good family. And quite kind. He's got to be gay, right?…

— Haruki Murakami

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

— Edwin Arnold

The true church is not an organization controlled by the rules of men but a holy collection of living stones with Jesus Christ as…

— Brother Yun

You are not wood, you are not stones, but men.

— William Shakespeare

Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones.

— Pope Francis

“It is upon such stones that men attempt to permanently etch history so they will not exist in a vacuum; it is the final…

— Rob Bignell

If people throw stones at you, pick 'em up and build something.

— LeCrae

“Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not…

— Israelmore Ayivor

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic.…

— Paul Keating

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we…

— Jon Favreau

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only…

— Renzo Piano

It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller…

— Claudio Magris

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People always throw stone in your path. Now it depends on you. What you make from it wall or bridge. Remember you are the…

— Aldyna Threesya

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants…

— John Ruskin