Building Quotes

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.

I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm doing a hell of a job, and I'm on the road to that next level.

...We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

Every building must have... its own soul.

Once we recognize our need for Jesus, then the building of our faith begins. It is a daily, moment-by-moment life of absolute dependence upon Him for everything

Anybody can build a building, putting some doors into it, but how many times have you been in a building that moves you to tears the way Beethoven's 'Eighth' does?

Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Fitness isn’t about building a better body. It’s about building a better life.

One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder.

Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

You need a plan for everything, whether it's building a cathedral or a chicken coop. Without a plan, you'll postpone living until you're dead.

The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.

[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

...Khufu who is believed to have been the pharaoh who commissioned the building of the great pyramid at Giza.

The key to building wealth is to preserve capital and wait patiently for the right opportunity to make the extraordinary gains.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

The creature we finally ended up building is biomechanical to the extent that he has physically grown into, or maybe even out of, his seat, - he's integrated totally into the function he performs.

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

Spend more time building your character than trying to build your platform.

All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions?

We are intent on building a movement. The next step is grassroots town meetings. We must keep alive the dialogue around the covenants.

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

Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.