Built Quotes - page 2

If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built. (Vitruvius)
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
I built my entire life on the idea of independence. View quote
Valerie Trierweiler
I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation. View quote
Kim Campbell
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. View quote
John Donne
A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies. View quote
Joseph Addison
She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built. (George Washington)
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. View quote
Kevin Kelly (editor)
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. View quote
Jean Rostand
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Built God a church, and laughed his Word to scorn. View quote
William Cowper
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. View quote
Thomas Mann
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril. View quote
J. William Fulbright
While God waits for his temple to be built of love, men bring stones. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. (Mark Twain)
Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house. View quote
Franz Schubert
When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures. View quote
Satya Nadella
Since such very powerful kings have not disdained walls built of brick, although... they might often have had them not only of masonry or dimension stone but even of marble, I think that one ought not to reject buildings made of brick-work, provided that they are properly "topped." View quote
Vitruvius
If the city is on the sea, we should choose ground close to the harbor as the place where the forum is to be built; but if inland, in the middle of the town. View quote
Vitruvius