Best 808 quotes in «building quotes» category

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.

We’re more proficient than women at arm wrestling, fresco-painting, ice hockey and particle physics. We make better cabinets, sun decks and booster rockets. We know how to read a map. In the movies, most Westerns and martial arts films would be poorer without our presence. ...So let’s renew our male mission and wear our antlers high on our heads. Let’s stand up straight, aim well, and exercise our prerogative to leave the seat up. After all, we’re MEN, and we hold a proud heritage in our hands.

We shouldn't live in a world where we live in constant terror. We need less dying and more living. We need less destroying and more building. We need less hate and more love.

When I was working at a biologically toxic facility, it was unfortunate that I was on a green card application that prevented me from changing employers. From the point of view of long term health, I was able to leave in a sickened state shortly after receiving it.

When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context." - Jonathan Hale, The Old Way of Seeing, 1994

While you were born with a self-worth and is a gift of God to you to begin your life with, your net worth is what you build here on earth and what you choose to do with the resources and gifts that you have been given.

You are the architect of your future; you decide whether you build a hut or a palace.

You must learn how to extract things of value out of things that seems totally worthless.

You receive a word of revelation that unveils the prototype or the picture you need to be able to perceive and understand how to build your life and what direction to take.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.

A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building materials is a house

After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.

A global brand building strategy is, in reality, a local plan for every market.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

A jump from the sixth floor is definitely more harmful than taking heroin, yet we don't forbid building sixth floors.

All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong.

All of the easy oil is gone and what's left is requiring more energy and money and this has an effect on everything. Our problem is that we've created an infrastructure that's so dependent on oil. As oil becomes more expensive we're going to be locked into the transportation modes that our economy depends on. So we really need to start building an alternative economy before we get caught in a trap of our own making.

All of us are selling ourselves, every single minute of every single dayeach one of us is building our own 'brand of me' and saying 'buy into me, put your faith into me, give me this shot, I will make it happen.'

All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

When I worked in high altitude astronomy, the worst sickness that I experienced was not at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea Observatory (MKO) in Hawaii, it was at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona at the much lower altitude of 6,875 feet. Due to my very high altitude experiences, I knew that this strange sickness was not primarily caused by altitude sickness and was most likely Sick Building Syndrome (SBS). After reporting various behavioral problems in all of the staff to the management team, my contract was not renewed, I was unable to legally protect the health and safety of the workers that I was responsible for, troubleshooting of this environmental problem stopped and I left in a sickened state for my next position before I could find the root cause.

You are the architect of your future; you decide whether you will build a hut or a palace.

You need to step out to build before God could bless what you are building

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.

A demonstration of sincere concern can be a strong building block of love.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

All of the buildings, all of those cars Were once just a dream In somebodys head.

All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities.

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!

And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

An endless number of green buildings doesn't make a sustainable city.

And, yes, I love the process of building.

An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

Anybody can leap off a building.