We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.' — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there? — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“All old building become crypts the moment they're finished, A shrine to a time that's already dead.” — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“It will take time to clear away the wreck. Though old buildings will eventually be replaced by finer ones, the new structures… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
It makes the city unique and hold a charm. In old Kolkata, there are some beautiful old buildings... some of them are… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing… — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
“Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
Spain is so different from the United States. It seemed to have a history, and the buildings are years and years and… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris,… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
The hidden village was something we found when we went to research in China we climbed a mountain in the Sichuan province… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is,… — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
“She wandered almost at random, zigzagging streets, following a canal for a bit, stopping to admire the towering red brick buildings that… — Karl Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to. — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the… — Andy Barrie Copy Share Image
Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! — George Bailey Copy Share Image
I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I managed to potter along tolerably well in the morning, sitting in the sun and sketching the old buildings... but in the… — Howard Pyle Copy Share Image
There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone.… — Richard Moe Copy Share Image
In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it's compared to the present. I mean there's… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down, and erects a new structure... The sincere Christian… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
In Brazil, there is a fear and a denial of our past. Downtown Rio used to display the history of colonialism in… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
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