Top 1200 School Buildings Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

If you want to see what a society really believes in, look at what the biggest buildings on the horizon are dedicated to.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.

I try to shield my children as far as possible from the public glare. I want them to have a normal childhood like we had. We went to school by the school bus, had school food... There was no special treatment given to us. The same applies to my children as well.

People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

I had the benefit of going to a really good high school on Long Island. I went to Shoreham-Wading River High School, which kind of started as an experimental public school back in the 60s and 70s. It had a bunch of teachers there with a unique teaching philosophy.

I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

There was certainly nothing really sexual about my youth growing up, simply because the fact remains if you're the fat kid in a school and I was the only fat black kid in the school - in fact, I was the only black kid in the school - but if you are kind of ostracized on many different levels in your school the last thing you're worried about is sex.

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work.

Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy.

I'm on the MIT board, and a lot of our buildings now have daycare centers; it's becoming a standard.

It was in Shizuoka, where my home was. I first attended this school when I was five years old. I also attended a regular elementary school, and I was taking piano lessons with a local teacher. I began to study composition at the Yamaha school. And I continued to study there until the age of 15.

When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school, and she worked at night. She worked very hard to never let someone define her as a victim or a failure.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

If a parent wants to choose where their kid goes to school, they can either fork over a whole bunch of money in tuition for private school or they can buy a new house near the school of their choice. And it's driving up property prices in certain key areas. When you stop and think about it, that's kind of ridiculous.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

From elementary school on up through junior high school, I loved to perform. But I put it all away during high school and college. I thought, "That's not actually something you do with your life." But then I was compelled to try it after college. I just got overcome.

I've heard a lot about the iconic buildings and all that Dubai has to offer and can't wait to experience it for myself.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

I would not be at all surprised to find out... that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

Having to go back and forth between school and filming would sometimes be frustrating because I loved school. It was my chance to be around other people my age. But when you're leaving school to go to a set that's filled with kids your age, then it's fine.

I want to show you that you can leap tall buildings, walk through walls, and change reality.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.

Dartmouth is a small school with high-caliber teaching. Our classes were all taught by professors, not teaching assistants. I felt like that was a school where I could make a big splash. The opportunities would be grander and more robust for me there than at a school with 40,000 students.

I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.

My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.

I was born in St. Augustine, Florida. I lived there till I was about 13, and then my family moved to Connecticut. I finished school there, and then I went to college in Philadelphia and came to New York in '87. I wasn't finished with school - I left school to go on the road.

I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was in third or fourth grade that I really settled down at school and I was much happier at home with my mum and she was very creative and sort of fostered all my interests.

I was exposed to a Muslim school, so I learnt Urdu. I was exposed to a Hindu school, so I learnt Hindi. I was exposed to a Church of England school, so I got my Senior Cambridge certificate.

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work

In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.

Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built.

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

I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work with a tutor for about six hours a day. It's hard core but definitely worth it, and it's my main focus now - finishing up high school before I release my new album and apply to college.

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

Among the things I love about London is that there is a lot of green space and that the buildings are not very tall.

School was a big source of anxiety for me. I hated school. I have social anxiety, and it developed when I was a kid. I had trouble going to birthday parties. It was always there. I begged my mom to let me be home-schooled at one point for a semester because I was so miserable at school.

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

I always felt uncomfortable with real estate because buildings don't move, and neighborhoods change.

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.