Edifices Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

• What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
• The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations. — George Santayana
• Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence… — Dan Simmons
• We remember a few people who've been enlightened. We build churches and edifices in their name. But few people, if any, feel that they could… — Frederick Lenz
• The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading churches and the… — Charles Colson
• What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal… — Frederick Lenz
• Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health,… — John Ruskin
• Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been… — Martin Filler
• Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first… — Arundhati Roy
• His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile. — Margaret Atwood
• Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of… — Rick Yancey
• The advance of science is not comparable to the changes of a city, where old edifices are pitilessly torn down to give place to new,… — Henri Poincare
• Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other… — James Fenimore Cooper
• The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be… — Vitruvius

Who Wrote These Edifices Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 Edifices Quotes as follows:

• 2 Edifices Quotes by Frederick Lenz
• 1 Edifices Quote by Benjamin Franklin
• 1 Edifices Quote by George Santayana
• 1 Edifices Quote by Dan Simmons
• 1 Edifices Quote by Charles Colson
• 1 Edifices Quote by John Ruskin
• 1 Edifices Quote by Martin Filler
• 1 Edifices Quote by Arundhati Roy
• 1 Edifices Quote by Margaret Atwood
• 1 Edifices Quote by Rick Yancey
• 1 Edifices Quote by Henri Poincare
• 1 Edifices Quote by James Fenimore Cooper
• 1 Edifices Quote by Vitruvius