"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building."

Building, Old

12

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building."

Exlpore more Building quotes

"Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house."

Cynthia Weil, American Musician

Building,

"In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks."

Warren Farrell, American Writer

Building, Fact, Tools

"A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for a building that will most likely never be built."

Nicholas Meyer, American Writer

Building, Will

"The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate."

Earl Blumenauer, American Politician

Building, Community

"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."

Anthony Quinn, Mexican Actor

Building, Irish

"We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center."

Richard Drew, American Photographer

Building, Trade, World

"We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new palate."

Emeril Lagasse, American Celebrity

Building, Giving, Right, Tradition

"There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."

John Bolton, American Statesman

Building, Difference, Nations, United

"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

Building, Cowards, Want

"So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important."

Gunther Schuller, American Composer

Building, Past

Explore more quotes by Carl Sandburg

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."

People

"Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen."

Wisdom

"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."

Creativity

"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."

Solitude

"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

Memory

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

Books

"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

Life

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

Courage

"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."

Friendship

"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."

Optimism