Building Quotes

3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors

Education is all a matter of building bridges. — Ralph Ellison
I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America… — Rahm Emanuel
Manufacturers employ more than 14 million Americans doing what Americans do best, making things, building things, transforming raw materials into finished products. — John Engler
I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country. — John Ensign
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. — Arthur Erickson
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. — Arthur Erickson
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. — Arthur Erickson
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. — Arthur Erickson
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. — Arthur Erickson
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. — Arthur Erickson
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. — Arthur Erickson
We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted… — Arthur Erickson
I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a… — Tom Felton
There are two kinds of sculptures. There's the kind that subtracts: Michelangelo starts with a block of marble and chips away. And then there is… — Jonathan Safran Foer
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. — Zaha Hadid
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. — Zaha Hadid
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort… — Zaha Hadid
I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it. — William Hague
The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels. — William Hague
Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied. — Gary Hamel
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. — Mia Hamm
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that… — Stephen Harper
There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying. — Colin Hay
Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to… — Edith Head
Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing… — Jim Hightower

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