Building Quotes
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The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
William Ruckelshaus -
We have in mind it being a very prominent building where people can come to learn about Washington state, the territorial history and the culture,
Sam Reed
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Medical education is not just a program for building knowledge and skills in its recipients... it is also an experience which creates attitudes and expectations.
Abraham Flexner -
I want to get better. Every time you lose, you learn from it, and after every win, you look to building on the tempo.
Venus Williams -
What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character.
Oscar Isaac -
Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building.
Victor LaValle -
We still have prostitutes standing on our corner, and people crapping round the back of buildings. The charms are still there.
Rachel -
My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.
Oona Chaplin
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We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.
Orville Wright -
When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
Aaron Neville -
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
Andrew Vachss -
I don't think there was enough skepticism because I think most of us kind of believed that Saddam Hussein was building biological, chemical, and perhaps even, nuclear weapons.
Walter Isaacson -
I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.
Ted Lange -
I live in a beautiful vintage building that was built in the heart of downtown Chicago.
Nate Berkus
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Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many North African fish dishes.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
[The building of the transcontinental railway] was something truly earth-shaking and, whether or not there had been a dime in it for me, sooner or later I would have been out on the grade with my cameras.
William Jackson -
One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.
Tony Evans -
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.
Alison Lurie -
Many older wealthy families have learned to instill a sense of public service in their offspring. But newly affluent middle-classparents have not acquired this skill. We are using our children as symbols of leisure-class standing without building in safeguards against an overweening sense of entitlement--a sense of entitlement that may incline some young people more toward the good life than toward the hard work that, for most of us, makes the good life possible.
David Elkind -
I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
Bessie Head
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We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
Building a computer out of any technology requires a large supply of only two kinds of elements: switches and connectors.
W. Daniel Hillis -
I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.
Beatrice Dalle -
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.
Daniel Berrigan