Building Quotes
3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors
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The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going…
— Sean O'Casey
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Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected…
— John Steinbeck
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There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days,…
— Anne Rice
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Fate, they say, fate- the clay that molds the events of your life, and it was the same fate that had thrown the stone of…
— Faraaz Kazi
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When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of…
— Mark Haddon
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When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs…
— Catherine Webb
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Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.
— Marvin J. Ashton
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Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the English language No...Unfortunately,…
— John Rosemond
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A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.
— Robert Reed
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The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Skillful pitching... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful,…
— Guy Kawasaki
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When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.
— Adrian Rogers
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I hope that we will learn from each other, but most of all that we would learn from God's Word, which equips us for every…
— R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and…
— Ronald Reagan
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If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years
— Angela Ahrendts
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A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind…
— Antoine Predock
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Fitness isn’t about building a better body. It’s about building a better life.
— Jillian Michaels
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And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.
— Lesley Gore
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Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the…
— John Quincy Adams
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What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the…
— Mohsin Hamid
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New ideas often need old buildings.
— Jane Jacobs
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in…
— Ann Patchett
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In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious,…
— Peter Zumthor
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