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Man has been breeding livestock for ten thousand years and has yet to come up with a monstrous sheep that can trample buildings and graze a whole golf course for breakfast (Buildings Quotes)
Industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it (Buildings Quotes)
I’ve got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it’s what children bring into school with them (Buildings Quotes)
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent (Buildings Quotes)
The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse (Buildings Quotes)
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train (Buildings Quotes)
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse (Buildings Quotes)
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter (Buildings Quotes)
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you’re able to grasp what things mean (Buildings Quotes)
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings (Buildings Quotes)
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 (Buildings Quotes)
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that (Buildings Quotes)
I’m not digging tunnels, I’m not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating (Buildings Quotes)
I marched and I protested against the war in Vietnam, along with many, many thousands of others. But I never quite understood the bombs that were placed in science labs or office buildings (Buildings Quotes)
Terror is now the world narrative, unquestionably. When those two buildings were struck, and when they collapsed, it was, in effect, an extraordinary blow to consciousness, and it changed everything (Buildings Quotes)
The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design (Buildings Quotes)
I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things (Buildings Quotes)
So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good (Buildings Quotes)
We go to church buildings that still have a mortgage. Which means the bank owns God’s house. Which means that we go and make love to God in a house that Satan owns! (Buildings Quotes)
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences (Buildings Quotes)
How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered (Buildings Quotes)
I wanna live so high up, that when I lay down to watch the sun set I can’t see any other buildings (Buildings Quotes)
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners (Buildings Quotes)
It would be useless to bomb Washington. If you destroy one building, they already have two other buildings completely staffed with people doing exactly the same thing (Buildings Quotes)
Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down (Buildings Quotes)
I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different (Buildings Quotes)
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful (Buildings Quotes)
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame? (Buildings Quotes)
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It’s so wasteful. Why not use what’s there? (Buildings Quotes)
Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that’ll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills (Buildings Quotes)