Quotes of Builder - somelinesforyou

“ The stone that the builder refused to lay should always be the head corners stone. You're a builder baby; here I am a stone. ”

- Bob Marley

“ Here's a little known fact - Arnold is the first body builder to run for governor since Janet Reno. ”

- David Letterman

“ Is the human race a universal constructor? ”

- David Deutsch

“ I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper. ”

- Barry Gibb

“ When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. ”

- Colleen C. Barrett

“ Placing the blame is a bad habit, but taking the blame is a sure builder of character. ”

- Dr. 0. A. Battista

“ The moment religion organizes into a specific creed it becomes a political force. From Moses down to Brigham Young, every creed-founder has been a State-builder. ”

- Daniel De Leon

“ Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone. ”

- Adrienne Clarkson

“ People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic. ”

- John Ruskin

“ No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. ”

- John Ruskin

“ It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced. ”

- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

“ If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. ”

- Harry Weinberger

“ Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. ”

- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

“ It is well indeed for our land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ There has to be an inner peace process that treats gang members like traumatized war victims who lack counseling, jobs, and respect. A lot of that has got to be self-administered in affinity groups, counseling groups, in jail and out of jail, with resources and professional help. ”

- Tom Hayden

“ It goes back to the old concept of town teams your guys: the mailman, the milkman, you know, the carpenter, the plumber. The popularity of vintage baseball will thrive on the backlash against the corporate, over-hyped, over-sold Major League Baseball. ”

- Jim Bouton

“ It goes back to the Miller Lite ads of the 1970s,... The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers. ”

- Dick Butkus

“ Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while. ”

- Grenville Kleiser

“ In describing the Mound-builders no effort has been made to paint their costume, their modes of life or their system of government. They are presented to the reader almost exclusively under a single aspect, and under the influence of a single emotion… ”

- Cornelius Mathews
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