Buildings Quotes

577 Buildings quotes by 444 unique authors

On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups… — Dillon Burroughs
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold
In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very frustrating to try… — Charles Francis Richter
We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state… — Alain de Botton
All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden. — Alain Robert
Europe by the end of this century will be a continent after the neutron bomb. The grand buildings will still be standing, but the people… — Mark Steyn
We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down… — Todd Tiahrt
Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph… — Ada Louise Huxtable
Men are built, not born.... Give me the baby, and I'll make it climb and use its hands in constructing buildings of stone or wood....… — John B. Watson
If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty… — Lucille Clifton
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced… — David Adjaye
I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my family all the… — Dorothy Draper
In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains… — Silas House
When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were… — Fred Rogers
With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of… — Alain Robert
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with… — Christopher Alexander
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all… — Joey Dunlop
When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that… — Steve Buscemi
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people… — Taylor Hanson
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships. — Paul Goldberger
I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi...… — Haruki Murakami
I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives.… — Paul Craig Roberts
What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse;… — Jurgen Habermas
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. — Robert Evans

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