Buildings Quotes

Solomon, I have surpassed thee.

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.

There is nothing more permanent than a temporary government building—unless it's a temporary tax.

I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.

It is for all these buildings, therefore, of all times and styles, that we plead, and call upon those who have to deal with them to put Protection in the place of Restoration, to stave off decay by daily care, to prop a perilous wall or mend a leaky roof by such means as are obviously meant for support or covering, and show no pretence of other art, and otherwise to resist all tampering with either the fabric or ornament of the building as it stands; if it has become inconvenient for its present use, to raise another building rather than alter or enlarge the old one; in fine to treat our ancient buildings as monuments of a bygone art, created by bygone manners, that modern art cannot meddle with without destroying.

The ancient city Aqpu, where kings who had preceded me had built, had deteriorated and turned into ruined hills. I rebuilt the city completely, decorated it and made it bigger than it was before. I then built my palace.

Architecture is a political art connecting our values to the ages.

Here is America struck by God Almighty in one of its vital organs, so that its greatest buildings are destroyed. God has blessed a group of vanguard Muslims, the forefront of Islam, to destroy America.

They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.

Whereas in the Fall of 1980 the frame of the new Senate Office Building was covered with plastic sheathing in order that construction might continue during the winter months; and Whereas the plastic cover has now been removed revealing, as feared, a building whose banality is exceeded only by its expense; and Whereas, even in a democracy there are things that it is as well the people do not know about their government; Therefore, be it resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the plastic cover be put back.

We have no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Our power will be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. We Americans are not destroyers; we are builders.

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

Long shall Germany live in shame and humiliation, a prey to inner conflict and alien arrogance, until her people return to the ideals from which they were seduced by selfish ambition, and until true religion and loyalty, unity of purpose and self-denial shall again render them capable of erecting such a building as this.

America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.

Our flag is the symbol of America. I want you to grasp what America really is. It is more than marks on a map. It is more than buildings and land. America is a living structure of human lives, of all the American lives that ever were and ever will be.

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

Titles were symbols, just as impressive buildings were symbols, except that titles, unlike buildings, cost nothing.

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets.

Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past - not just through historical documents, but through actual physical remains - objects, buildings and the layout of our towns.

My buildings are more famous than me.

When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture.

A lot of places in Las Vegas are big boxes of stuff. The hotels I've built have had, for lack of a better term, a soul.

During my stay in Philadelphia, I could not help be surprised at the great increase in that City in Buildings, Mechanicks, and Manufactures…. The People of Pennsylvania lay their plans with more Temper and Judgment and pursue with more patience and Steadfastness…. They are silently stealing in Mechanicks and Manufactures; and if they go on as they have hitherto done, they will probably in a few years Supply themselves with many of the necessary articles which they now import from Great Britain.

What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it's crap-looking - apart from the White House, which is beautiful.