Built Quotes

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Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's all about time, dimwit time, inferior time, people checking watches and other devices, other reminders. This is time draining out of our lives. Cities… — Don DeLillo
But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built… — Kathryn Stockett
It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we… — Josh Bazell
It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the… — Meg Rosoff
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient,… — Neil Gaiman
Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their… — Rabindranath Tagore
You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man. — Rick Riordan
The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings. — Maggie Stiefvater
You're not built for riding, either," Horace added. "I'd say more saddle sore than homesick." Svenal sighed ruefully, shifting his buttocks for the twentieth time… — John Flanagan
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them. — Holly Black
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's… — Dave Eggers
Jan built herself an ivory tower to keep the wolves out; she never dreamed they were already inside. — Mira Grant
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown… — Langston Hughes
It was true what Jim said, this wasnâ€™t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then,… — Jamie O'Neill
So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice,… — Cornelia Funke
The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful… — Rick Riordan
The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands of years.â€ â€œYeah,â€… — Rick Riordan
After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases. — Khaled Hosseini

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