Cement Quotes
148 Cement quotes by 129 unique authors
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The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under…
— Peter Hedges
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I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.
— Mwai Kibaki
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From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on…
— Jerry Lewis
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I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires…
— Marina and the Diamonds
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Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the…
— John Piper
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I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had…
— Robert Redford
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Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
— Harry Stack Sullivan
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Cement doesn't give as much as snow.
— Shaun White
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A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But…
— Olivia Wilde
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what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
— Allen Ginsberg
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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came…
— Anna Quindlen
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I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two,…
— Tom Robbins
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Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that…
— Jim Harrison
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Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them…
— Margaret Atwood
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His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But,…
— Ken Kesey
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There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree…
— Betty Smith
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I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the…
— Siri Hustvedt
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You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the…
— Jacqueline Woodson
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Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of…
— Janet Frame
Who Wrote These Cement Quotes
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