Buildings Quotes
577 quotes by 462 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
— Herb Caen
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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
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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
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
— Winston Churchill
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In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
— Stephen Ambrose
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The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.
— Stephen Ambrose
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
— Tadao Ando
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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
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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
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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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