Top 686 Building Quotes

Yes, Leander locked me out. I’d gone with my child for a birthday party. Leander and his mother were running out of the building as I was entering. They even put my clothes in boxes and threw them out.
Rhea Pillai
Um, I think every role, whether in TV or film, has a part in building a career and relationships.
Stana Katic
Building mental strength is the key to reaching our full potential in life.
Amy Morin
I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.
Charles Barkley
I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness… I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
Peter Zumthor
My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.
Robin S. Sharma
‘Shelby Star’ is going great. We shot a music video, and I’m building an app and some other things for the project.
Christina Milian
The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we’d been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.
Hunter Tylo
I believe that the key to building a strong economy in Wisconsin starts with education. Every single kid in our state deserves access to a good public education, no matter their zip code.
Tony Evers
What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
Terence McKenna
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.
Jonah Lomu
We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.
Mark Zuckerberg
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy
It’s happening: Lou Dobbs’ dream come true and Silicon Valley’s worst nightmare. We’re already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their U.S. educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries.
Sarah Lacy
It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.
Arthur Henderson
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
Arthur Erickson
South Carolina is one of the most racist states in America. John C. Calhoun is the name of a building at our school and he was a slave owner. Clemson, the name Clemson itself, was like a guy who was a slave owner. South Carolina, their whole history is messed up.
DeAndre Hopkins
A lot of the jobs I had revolved around metal fabrication and creating and building and maintaining equipment.
Mike Schultz
I don’t really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There’s such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody’s building this little town to speak in symbolism.
Franka Potente
Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web sites. With ClickThings what you see is what you get, unlike some other competitive Web-based Website building tools.
Boomer Esiason
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that’s what you do when you build a house.
Cynthia Weil
I’m not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
Kate Hudson
A building has at least two lives – the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward – and they are never the same.
Rem Koolhaas
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject – architecture – that I had already faced in building some small houses.
Mario Botta
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
James E. Casey
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We have the responsibility to protect our people and that’s why we’re building this fence. We’ve suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.
Silvan Shalom
I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I’m not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.
Hanya Yanagihara
One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish’s ‘Monster Blood Tattoo,’ in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There’s no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they’re not always given credit for that.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.
Joseph Jarman
Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.
Giorgio Napolitano
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.
Carl Sandburg
We’re at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
Anita Borg
I suppose that when I’m building a character, it’s usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up – that nurture side.
Henry Cavill
My husband and I are building a ‘green’ house in Santa Ynez Valley. We bought 15 acres and we’re going to build a house that’s green from the ground up.
Jennie Garth
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
Louis Kahn
One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it’s the one commonly grown and therefore exceptionally renewable building material that we have available to us. And it acts as storage for carbon dioxide.
Magnus Larsson
Today, we have sophisticated building technology: we can calculate and simulate the environments and performance of the building, the thermal exposure of envelop, or the air flow through an urban space or structure.
Bjarke Ingels
The toughest thing about the power of trust is that it’s very difficult to build and very easy to destroy. The essence of trust building is to emphasize the similarities between you and the customer.
Thomas J. Watson
I don’t usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren’t yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn’t look great as a model?
Paul Goldberger
I think when you look to the future what you’ll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.
Tim Scott
Building trust is very important.
Eric Yuan
Momentum is building for the creation of a shared future, one that is more egalitarian, inclusive, and respectful of the environment – a future that ultimately offers greater possibilities for personal development and control over our individual lives.
Isabelle Kocher
I’ve been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I’ve been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.
Helen Clark
Cryptography is the essential building block of independence for organisations on the Internet, just like armies are the essential building blocks of states, because otherwise one state just takes over another.
Julian Assange
We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
Hussein of Jordan
We have to realize we are building a movement.
Dorothy Height
Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don’t believe me – take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.
Bill O’Reilly
Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.
Timothy McVeigh
Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
Madeleine Albright
Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy.
Frances Burney
It’s of course important to mention that when DJing, I’m building my own story through the music. I’m figuring out what song to play next, what song to play after that, and how the two will blend together. How the emotion is going to develop from one song to another. So I first build that storyline.
Steve Aoki
Because I do think – not just in building AOL – but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.
Steve Case
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.
Louis Sullivan