Old Buildings Quotes

Old Buildings Quote of the day

We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

New ideas must use old buildings

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

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

New ideas often need old buildings.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

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.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

Yankee Stadium, it's like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes.