Buildings Quotes

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On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those… — Michael Bloomberg
You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built… — Michael Bloomberg
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the… — Nellie Bly
For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from… — Andrea Bocelli
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at… — Joyce Brothers
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings… — Sitting Bull
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch… — Julie Burchill
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot… — George W. Bush
I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us… — George W. Bush
It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by… — Christopher Alexander
Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other. — Herb Caen
There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional… — Christopher Alexander
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences. — Christopher Alexander
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. — Winston Churchill
In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since. — Stephen Ambrose
The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are. — Stephen Ambrose
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe. — Tadao Ando
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see… — Tadao Ando
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I… — Tadao Ando
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange… — Winston Churchill

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