Quotes about Buildings

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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no m — Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy
The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
We are what we build — Lois Farfel Stark, The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times
Don't only learn from the rich and successful men, also learn from the poor and those that failed woefully, for in their — Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success
Don't cheat the foundation of a house because you want to save for the roofing for at the end, you will have only roofed — Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success
Don't sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse. — Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success
Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself — Leonardo Donofrio, Old Country
We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us — Lois Farfel Stark, The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times
Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhereis felt everywhere. — Lois Farfel Stark, The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times
It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be re — John Ruskin
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 — Munia Khan
Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, — I.M. Pei
If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its bi — Joseph Campbell
We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller. — Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun
Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty s — Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
...while some communities are chasing visions out, others are chasing one another away. ....while some leaders love brea — Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
The carved stone sign in front read Building C.Imaginative title, Langdon thought — Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger. — Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop
I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. — Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look — Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness