Mortar Quotes

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. Herman Melville
Heart Hate White Down Rage Sum Hump General Had He Hot Mortar Felt Piled Shell Been Chest His Whale Burst Race Then Whole Adam
School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American. W. E. B. Du Bois
Life Soul School Thought Black Men Girl Long Breath White Living Machinery Out Black Or White Russian Study Mortar Houses Makes Piles Boy Real Boys And Girls Cultivated Trained Greek American Send Human Whether Them Breathes Themselves Teach Brick Human Soul Strengthened
America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure. Virginia Postrel
Happiness Alone Together Will Long Carries Some Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Host Absorb Individuals Mortar Powerful Mosaic Conceived Most Most Powerful Cultural Left America Endure Influences Held Inherited Groups Each Whom Chosen Ever
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. John Updike
Architecture Mortar Substance Fictional Evanescent Bricks Consciousness
A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently. Bobby Flay
Great Spices Nice Think Everything Collected Collecting Give Rustic Never Mortar Feel Because Making Mexico Stone Anything Grinding Might Decorated Coarse Each Each One Differently Start
I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on. Alan Moore
History You Construction Think Topography More Mortar Accidental Go Than Place Much Separate Ground Bricks Stands
I get an especially acute case of agita at the thought of a mortar and pestle. Samin Nosrat
Thought Case Mortar Get Acute
Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing. Natalie Massenet
Marketing See Online Part Mortar Am Shop Bricks Even
It is too expensive to have a bricks and mortar presence everywhere. Arundhati Bhattacharya
Too Everywhere Mortar Expensive Bricks Presence
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast. Mario Batali
Food Better Everyone Mortar Makes Texture Just Fast
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. John Oates
Music Business Music Business Mortar Longer Exist Any Bricks
I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye. David McCallum
Life You Think Eye Mortar Around Governed Hand Holds Your Who Bricks
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure. John Yoo
Fire Guard Distant Soldiers Battlefield Secure Weapons Inside More Outside Had Mortar Making Prisoners American Any While Far American Soldiers Receiving Guantanamo
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. Eric Bogosian
Director Words Build Mortar House Provide Situations Bricks Actor Designers
I've done pretty well in my career, and I've watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that's not me. Anthony Warlow
Me Car Shoes Spent Colleagues Pretty Rather Mortar Most Well Than Done Who Bricks Receive Watched Career
Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. Bill Delahunt
Burden Depend Unfair On-Line Bear Mortar Exempt Continue Sales Sales Tax Effectively Tax Tax Burden Cannot Which Them Communities Brick Businesses Competitors
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