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Quotes About Building

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?
~ Karen Essex
It's a protected historical building. They had to preserve the internal walls." It was the kind of obscure stuff Marcus was good at remembering, and it always came in handy.
~ Karen Traviss
Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
~ Kate Baldwin
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.
~ Northrop Frye
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.
~ Edward Young
Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.
~ Jonathan Meades
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
~ Sitting Bull
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
~ Napoleon Hill
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
~ Billy Connolly
I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.
~ David Edelstein
God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.
~ T. B. Joshua
The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
~ John F. Kennedy
What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
~ Terence McKenna
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.
~ Kofi Annan
The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
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
It's much more efficient to build on a head-strong teen than to fix a broken-spirited adult.
~ Ace Antonio HallHall
Life itself is a rickety building
~ William Golding
By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly.
~ Auliq Ice