Building Quote by Alfred Jarry

There are house demolitions and destruction all over the West Bank and Gaza. Just yesterday in Gaza they demolished three towers under the pretext…

— Ahmed Yassin

We live ruins amid ruins.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

— Rumi

Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there…

— J. B. Jackson

Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Destruction is always an attractive idea. My brother and I used to spend weeks making models of cities so that we could destroy them…

— Chuck Palahniuk

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

— Ma Yansong

We want to destroy everything, not rebuild on the same rubble. We have different ideas. It is like any work. You have to have…

— Beppe Grillo

The ruins proclaim the building was beautiful.

— Mohsin Hamid

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

— Farah Diba

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build…

— Buenaventura Durruti

I personally believe we were put here to build and not to destroy.

— Red Skelton