Built Quotes

2368 Built quotes by 1817 unique authors

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day. — David Sedaris
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work… — Barbara Kingsolver
This boat that we just built is just fine - And don't try to tell us it's not The sides and the back are divine… — Shel Silverstein
The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high...… — Stephen King
I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree, outside the city........I'll… — Donald Miller
You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm,… — Rodman Philbrick
It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to… — Deb Caletti
An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and… — Neal Stephenson
It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as… — Colum McCann
You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks. — Pete Wentz
The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily.… — Steven Galloway
I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window we built or any window at… — Nicholas Sparks
You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?" "Only a man would think of that. It's our job," said Moist.… — Terry Pratchett
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

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