Top 1200 Building Quotes & Sayings

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its construction. A damaged building can always be repaired if it still has life, but a dead building will never be whole again.

Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.

I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow.

Why are people so supportive of him [Osama bin Laden] in many countries? Hes been out in these countries for decades building roads, building schools, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful.

We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable.

The largest expense in our philanthropy is capital expenditure because we are building these institutions. This institution-building idea stems from my father because he has the experience of building a company from scratch.

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

Live, or die: mere consequences of what you have built. What matters is building well. So here we are, I've assigned myself a new obligation. I'm going to stop undoing, deconstructing, I'm going to start building. What matters is what you are doing when you die... I want to be building.

I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

The future doesn't just happen. We are building it, and we are building it all the time.

Right now, at the age of 22, I'm making a living off of this and I'm building, not only just my brand, but I'm also building myself bell-to-bell. I'm building myself when that red light's on and I want to keep doing it.

When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not been participating. It's a correlation, not a causation as far as the statisticians go, but the fascinating question is; Is there something in participation in sports, in community-building, confidence building, self-image-building, strength building, social networking - that greatly enhance employability?

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

I've always said if I could own one piece it would be Vermeer's The Love Letter, and if I could put it anywhere it would be in a David Chipperfield building. I'm almost there with the building - Chipperfield is building a new house for me in London. The Vermeer is a long way off.

The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.

Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

On shipbuilding, on submarine building, warship building, coastal surveillance or small vessel building, we have both public and private sector. The capacities have really been scaled up, and the skill sets, hi-tech skill sets, have been acquired.

Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

Ladies and gentlemen, Otis Alexander Sudeikis has LEFT the building! (I'm the building)

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us.

Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian.

My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.

From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges.

Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own.

Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

I think the UFC's done a great job of building the brand, building the UFC, building MMA.

If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.

My total focus was on building up our military, building up our strength, building up our borders, making sure that China, Japan, Mexico, both at the border and in trade, no longer takes advantage of our country.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.