243 Buildings Quotes for You to Enjoy

True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is failure. So your legacy should not be in buildings, programs, or projects; your legacy must be in people. Myles Munroe

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Winston Churchill

Our Shape Buildings Us Thereafter

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. George W. Bush

Resolve Our Touch Shake Steel Attacks Shatter Buildings Terrorist Dent America American Biggest Cannot Foundation Acts Foundations

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. Antoni Gaudi

Nature Corners Must Sharp Buildings Lines Straight Therefore

When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me. Fred Rogers

Me Hero Heroes Young Changed Honestly Air Say Through Picked Attention Arm Most Buildings Does Got Were Lot Up Very Child Childhood Anyone Grew Anything Wore Flew Help Who Now Spectacular

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. Stephen Gardiner

Good People Architecture Problems Good People Design Solved Come Buildings

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them. Arthur Schopenhauer

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. Frank Lloyd Wright

Too Earth Sun Buildings Children

People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People Pleasant Some Various Like Buildings Personalities View

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright

Home Plant Physician First Mistakes Build Possible Architect Only Advise Client Buildings Go His As Far As Bury Far Should Vines

Our nation's commitment is to provide a quality education to every child to serve the public common good. Accordingly, we must shift the paradigm to think of education funding as investments made in individual children, not in institutions or buildings. Betsy DeVos

Education Good Quality Commitment Made Nation Every Think Our Paradigm Must Individual Investments Institutions Quality Education Buildings Shift Provide Accordingly Child Common Children Common Good Public Serve Funding

Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Nature Construction Walls Skin Say Consisting Carry Weight Buildings Concrete Noodles Nor Reinforced Bones

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built. Frank Lloyd Wright

Life Man Stream Build Reflect Neither Record Rises More Could Higher Never Had He Learned Buildings Built Were Nor Source Than Might Less Express Ever

My buildings are all on budget. Frank Gehry

Budget Buildings

Dublin dwindles so beautifully; there is no harsh separation between it and the country. It fades away, whereas London seems to devour the country; an army of buildings come and take away a beautiful park, and you never seem to get quite out of sight of a row of houses. George A. Moore

Beautiful You Army Country Separation Harsh Sight Out London Seem Seems Park Take Never Fades Between Come Beautifully Devour Houses Buildings Dublin Get Quite Whereas Away Row

I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings. Harvey Milk

People Will Important More Never Never Forget Buildings Than Forget Personally

Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff. Heath Ledger

Running Had Stuff Around Buildings Tights Climbing Listened Agent

The family I'm from, well, no one had their name on big buildings. My family were builders of a different kind. Builders in the way most American families are. They used whatever tools they had - whatever God gave them - and whatever life in America provided - and built better lives and better futures for their kids. Hillary Clinton

Life God Family Better Big Whatever Gave Tools Way Kids Kind Futures Had No-One Name Most Well Builders Buildings Built Were Provided Families America American Different American Families Them Different Kind Used Lives

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. John W. Gardner

Education School Burden Will Own Conviction Else Our System Individual Pursuit Shared Over Until Buildings Odd Shift Educational Ultimate His Ultimate Goal Goal Get Goes Nowhere Widely

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones. Kevin McCloud

Thinking Look Without Buildings Historical Modern Cannot

Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we'd like to hope that, when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing. I think as long as there is that hope in our society and in the zeitgeist of superheroes, Superman will be relevant. Matt Bomer

Hope Do The Right Thing Fly Will Long Superman Single Think Faster Society Speeding Our Right Thing Kid Relevant Locomotive Run Able Superheroes Push Outside Bound Like Leap Tall Buildings Than Just Being Wanting The Right Thing Shove Zeitgeist Right Thing

Buildings Quotes

No more buildings quotes