Building Quotes

3027 Building quotes by 2084 unique authors

Of course, I'm being rude. I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given… — Markus Zusak
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I know what it’s like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it’s like to be in danger. While your city was building you… — Scott Westerfeld
I would have a flick of fear, as in a dream when you find yourself in the wrong building or have forgotten the time for… — Alice Munro
I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and… — Michael Ondaatje
Walks are never as good during the day. At night, when everyone's apartments are lit up and you can see inside, that's where the action… — Susane Colasanti
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their… — Jodi Picoult
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a… — Steven Pinker
Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of… — Greg Behrendt
Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward. — Joel Osteen
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. — Shelby Foote
I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds… — Neil Peart
Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass---a blend of stock car… — Stephen Dobyns
An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the… — Chuck Palahniuk
It wasn't awful to be dead. The stillness would almost be a relief. She wouldn't want pain, she wouldn't want to be wounded or mutilated.… — Janet Fitch
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual… — Alain de Botton
There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky,… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
I saw my town as if I had just arrived. It was as if I was waking up. You see houses and buildings every day,… — Gary D. Schmidt
They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted… — Neal Stephenson
Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building. — Philip Gourevitch
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a… — Henry Miller
But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime.… — Paulo Coelho
And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he… — Khaled Hosseini
I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine. — Samantha Hunt
the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people… — Banksy

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