Building Quotes · Page 17

Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

— Janine Benyus

I just got to keep going and keep building on my game and get better and better each season.

— Justin Jefferson

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

— Minoru Yamasaki

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

— Neil Gaiman

Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.

— Hansika Motwani

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

— John Clellon Holmes

Google is fascinating, and the book isn't finished. I'm creating, living, building, and writing those chapters.

— Susan Wojcicki

Obviously you're always gonna work to improve, and work on your weaknesses and continue building strengths.

— Daniel Jones

Apple is apparently building a large solar energy farm in North Carolina. And if there's any justice, the minute they're done building…

— Jimmy Fallon

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

— Renzo Piano

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe.…

— Alan Davies

To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants…

— Anonymous

Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin.…

— Andy Roddick

A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give…

— Madame de Stael

I don't do casinos or prisons; I like to do projects that enhance the lives of everyday people, like campus buildings, libraries,…

— Philip Freelon

When you open up Pinterest, you should feel like you've walked into a building full of stuff that only you are interested…

— Ben Silbermann

I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing…

— Anonymous

And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing…

— Etgar Keret

Theatre has nothing to do with buildings or other physical constructions. Theatre - or theatricality - is the capacity, this human property…

— Augusto Boal

I'd like something that faces reality. We have 12 million people in this country that are undocumented - that's a reality. It's…

— Patrick Leahy

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The…

— Jessamyn West

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging…

— Alex Steffen

Life is a building. It rises slowly, day by day throughout the years. Every new lesson we learn lays a block on…

— J.R. Miller

The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is…

— Douglas Hyde

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

— Shelby Foote

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture, creating the building blocks for success.

— Ted Sundquist

“the key to human development is building on who you already are”

— Tom Rath

We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.

— Rachel Held Evans

Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.

— Kevin Rudd

You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Before you get out of the building, get out of your comfort zone.”

— Rodrigo Martinez RMentrepreneur

We need to focus on building a military that is second-to-none ... so that we can destroy Islamic terrorism.

— Jeb Bush

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

— Edwin Arnold

Empowering yourself is an essential component to building mental strength and creating the kind of life you want.

— Amy Morin

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

— T. S. Eliot

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

— Walter Tevis

Everything from the infrastructure we build to the products we use must now be aimed squarely at building a zero-carbon world.

— Caroline Lucas

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

— Jack Levin

I have a gym membership, but that's always been more about muscle building for roles.

— Tom Payne

I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.

— Valerie Thomas