Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
John Muir
Modern man has developed a kind of Gallup-poll mentality, relying on quantity instead of quality and yielding to expediency instead of building a new faith.
Walter Gropius
You know I used to think the future was solid or fixed, something you inherited like an old building that you move into when the previous generation moves out or gets chased out. But it's not. The future is not fixed, it's fluid.
Paul David Hewson
There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people’s progress.
Franklin D Roosevelt
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Building trust requires talking and thinking about trust.
Robert C. Solomon
We see low- to moderate-income communities that are distressed from exposure to environmental hazards such as pollution, waste and toxic building practices.
Anne Sekel
Some areas that spring to mind are agriculture, democracy building, disaster relief, education, and science and technology.
Richard Boucher
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
Martin Puryear
In addition, there is a dedicated outdoor area for a sculpture garden that will enhance the cultural mission of the building.
John Anderson
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
Kofi Annan
Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.
David K Shipler
Romance is about building trust, affection, and harmony between two caring people.
Mitch Thrower
It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of Magnificent Intentions.... Spacious avenues, that begin in nothing, and lead nowhere; streets, mile-long, that only want houses, roads, and inhabitants; public buildings that need but a public to be complete; and ornaments of great thoroughfares, which only lack great thoroughfares to ornamentare its leading features.
Charles Dickens