Building Quote by Rumi “Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.” — Rumi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Building Change Engineering Firsts Inspirational Old buildings
“It will take time to clear away the wreck. Though old buildings will eventually be replaced by finer ones, the new structures will take… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What you spend years building, someone might destroy overnight. Build it anyway. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new. — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. — Rumi Copy Share
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again. — Rumi Copy Share
Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you. — Rumi Copy Share
“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you answer. Don’t ask why this delights me.” — Rumi Copy Share
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly. — Rumi Copy Share
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
Peace is an ongoing process. It begins with the first step and it does not end. We, all of us alive today, are the… — David Krieger Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get out of here! Any minute the building will explode!' And then the reader says: "Yes...we have to get... out of here." So it's not easy to be in the moment in that kind of situation. Reading… — Jim Cummings Copy Share
Absolutely, you can improve and become better at toughness. It's a talent, but it can be acquired, too. I think of it like building… — Jim Harbaugh Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image