Cement Quotes

148 quotes by 135 authors

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer. — Bob Beauprez
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. — Yasser Arafat
lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics… — Paul Farmer
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. — Robert Herrick
The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it. — Drake
...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and… — James Madison
The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on… — Thomas Jefferson
It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable. — Jim Leach
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without which all other redeeming features… — William Grant Bangerter
The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand… — Canvass White
The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted… — Canvass White
This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does… — Canvass White
To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient… — Canvass White
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice. — Pope John Paul II
With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming… — Michael J. Fox
There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement. — Groucho Marx
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had… — Archibald MacLeish
People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze… — Nathaniel Philbrick
Sometimes when I'm driving behind a big cement truck, I think of how the valve on the truck could suddenly open, spilling cement over my… — Jack Handey

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