Building Quotes · Page 31

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

— Grace Lee Boggs

...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

— John Muir

I'm building this reputation as YA heartbreaker, I know. Some people like 'happily ever after,' but I don't think that's me.

— Adam Silvera

I live in a loft in a building I designed, but for my dream house I'd get Frank Gehry, just to see…

— Hugh Hardy

Look, when we were building Area, we were so driven and focused, partly because none of us came from money.

— Eric Goode

After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.

— Harriet Van Horne

You always have to start on the foundation, to create the building.

— Alyssa Tillmon

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

— Gelett Burgess

Housing providers and building and design professionals have a responsibility under federal nondiscrimination laws to provide housing protections for individuals with disabilities.

— Jeff Van Drew

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building…

— Richard Lamm

An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily…

— Guy Kawasaki

There's no one right way to parent, and there's no magic combination of genders that produces the most well-adjusted child. We all…

— Jessica Valenti

For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their…

— Ashton Kutcher

Getting in the public eye early, raising money and building an organization are key to winning a presidential campaign. If you fall…

— Harry Enten

There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to…

— Cesar Pelli

The pattern of things was that each of the research students would be doing some particular experiment on the accelerator, often involving…

— John Henry Carver

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years…

— Martin Filler

I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel…

— Dean Israelite

With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with…

— Arundhati Roy

Working with Tracy Morgan on '30 Rock' is really great. I love Tracy. He's wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire…

— Sherri Shepherd

Extreme narcissists exaggerate their achievements and talents, and so Trump has spent his life building up a false image of himself -…

— George T. Conway III

In 1964, Jeanne-Claude and I became illegal aliens. That's when we moved here from Paris. And for three years, we were illegal…

— Christo

“It can be said that we are built by many things. Biology and lineage. Grit and moonlight and ocean stone. By fire…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

Comfort, simplicity, practicality - these are all American words. It is simplicity in fabric and way of cut. You cannot produce complicated…

— Zoran

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

— Ty Pennington

Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.

— Sebastian Coe

I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

— Haile Gerima

“There are many countries but few nations. We are committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live”

— Fela Durotoye

I'm a body builder, but I don't use weights. I use snacks. It's kind of a different building process.

— Demetri Martin

We define a world. We build a house, then after building the house we enter into it and we never leave it.

— Frederick Lenz

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

— Joseph Campbell

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the…

— David Allan Coe

All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.

— Steven Wright

I'm excited about working with Mark Hughes and building a good relationship with him.

— Carlos Tevez

I believe in building your foundation - if your foundation is not rich, then you are far from rich.

— Rick Ross

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

— George Crabbe

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

— Hank Hanegraaff

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than…

— Rem Koolhaas

The Church is not the building, its the people, its not just the gathering, its also the scattering...

— John Wimber

Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

— Laird Barron