A house isn’t really understandable until it settles into the site: until it’s built, furnished and lived in for four or five years. The reality is not on paper but in how a building sits on the land – how it relates to trees, to slopes, to water, to gardens.
The Romans thought of themselves as the chosen people, yet they built the greatest army on Earth by recruiting warriors from any background.
We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
I’ve built my homeland, I’ve even founded my state – in my language.
I know that Daddy had an important job. He was working to change the world so everyone would love wildlife like he did. He built a hospital to help animals, and he bought lots of land to give animals a safe place to live.
And there’s the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria.
Tyler Perry’s brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I’ve built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney’s Touchstone. We can do anything. People don’t know what to expect from me yet.
As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things – we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.
Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built.
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.
Once you’ve built the big machinery of political power, remember you won’t always be the one to run it.
Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.
Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
America was built on segregation. It’s gonna stay segregated until everyone’s equal, and that ain’t gonna happen when it’s a capitalistic society.
Our Armed Forces are built upon unity and teamwork, but intersectional philosophy depends on dividing people into warring victim groups.
The Xbox is how the computer will be built in the next 20 years. More semiconductor capacity will go to the user experience.
It’s maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very ill – he was an alcoholic – so there were a lot of things that built up for me. And because I was going to a Catholic school in a small German town, a lot of it was suppressed. I was angry and didn’t know how to get it out.
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.
I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that.
At a time when nobody thought we’d ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.
Hollywood’s built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
Everyone has friends that are limited to one platform and ecosystem, whereas what we’ve built with ‘Fortnite’ is a friends system that works across seven platforms. You can have friends across Xbox and PlayStation and PC.
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
My community was built on a foundation of organic growth through watching people play video games.
I found a great trainer in Miami with Dodd Romero, who’s worked with a lot of celebrities and athletes. We built a good program for me for training and for me to work on my nutrition and things like that.
You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.
I brought hurdles, all ten of them, to the beach and had my hurdling sessions very close to the water. Those days, I trained on the beach for nearly three months every season with coach Nambiar. I used to run into the water, almost chasing the receding waves, and that was how I built up strength.
I’ve paid an awful lot of lawyers to protect what I’ve built. I can only hope the money was well spent.
As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.
For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.
Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.
We can’t afford to lose all that we’ve built from the ashes of the Korean War.
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or manageable to me if I didn’t have children and a partner for life with whom to share it all.
I was built this way for a reason, so I’m going to use it.
A famous man once said, ‘A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.’ Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.
We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.
