Building Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.”

— René Descartes

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.

— Ellen Glasgow

The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that…

— John Ruskin

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

— David Allan Coe

“When we gaze at the magnificence of an ancient monument and ascribe its achievement to one man, we are guilty of spiritual embezzlement. We…

— Ayn Rand

My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become.…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the…

— Georges Bataille

We've had a wonderful, wonderful life together. We've been in many places, we've had the experiences, and now we have the memories. But most…

— David B. Haight

“When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“A beam from the everlasting sun of God. Rude and unresponsive are the stones; Yet in them divine things lie concealed; I hear their…

— Helen Keller

Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.

— Edgar Lee Masters