Top 1200 Old Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Our odd idea of the classical world, the white Washington, D.C., is based on buildings that were originally brightly painted.

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

Im so happy with The Blacklist. Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.

The United States have developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market.

I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their age, but because of what's in their heads. They are horrified at this, but they aren't horrified at what's happening in the streets?

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.

I feel that buildings often have a workaday aspect that you see during the daylight hours, and a more resplendent side that emerges after dark.

It depends who they are. If it's Mick (Jagger) or the Old Guard as I call them, yeah, they're the Old Guard. Elton (John), David (Bowie) are the newies. I don't feel like an old uncle, dear, 'cause I'm not that much older than half of 'em, hehe.

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.

Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture.

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings.

I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.

It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

After the destructionofthe Second Temple Jewslived by an ancient and fundamental insight, that God does not live in buildings but in the human heart.

So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.

You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

I'm always running up and down buildings or around 800-acre properties for work - you can't do that in heels or flip-flops!

We can appreciate but not really understand the medieval town. We cannot comprehend its compactness, the contiguity of all its buildings as a single uninterrupted whole.

When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.

Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic hamburgers to multi-story apartment buildings.

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

I want to show that drama doesn't lie only in blood and destroyed buildings but in daily life, in ordinary human beings.

My son, who is 7, he passed a car in a parking lot that was probably a 1998 model, and he said, 'Wow, Dad, look at that old car.' I was looking around for an old car, and I realized that my old car maybe stops at 1965.

There is much more to schools than buildings. There are academic activities, how it reaches the community and its proximity to other programs.

With Mtn Dew Game Fuel, I'm flying off buildings and hitting 360 snipes with more precision than ever.

I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.

The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the speed of automobiles or the efficiency of air transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

Window washers increase the vision in the windows of the buildings; wisdom quotes do the same thing in the eyes of the people!

I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.

The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.

I love watching old movies anyway - I grew up with my mom watching old movies and being immersed in the history of old Hollywood.

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

Old people can make me cry. I worry about getting old, and old people inspire me to live life to the full.

In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan.

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

Perhaps I'm old-fashioned but I don't think mothers want their 25-year-old daughters to marry 85-year-old men, except maybe for the money. Money, at least, makes some sense.

Scientists say an 8.9 earthquake here could knock down buildings, flood coastal areas... and improve the roads.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.

It's our job as curators to open up Hampton Court to visitors, and to look after the buildings and collections for the future.

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.