Best built & found Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

Source: The twelve Caesars

“Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited any Supreme Court Justice or White House incumbent. That amendment had built a wall, with the ecclesiastical estate on one side and the civil estate on the other.”

Source: Neither King Nor Prelate: Religion and the New Nation, 1776-1826

“I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.”

Knows Humans Spirit Found Human Beings Havens Wall Built Determined Get Over Human Spirit

Author:Chris Christie

“Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.”

Way Found Identity Daughter Built Moses Pharaohs

Author:Margaret Halsey

“He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]”

Found Left Cities Built Bricks Marble Augustus Augustus Caesar

Author:Suetonius

“I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.”

Feels Littles Found Bits Novel Succeed Little Bit Built Tendencies Fragile Fossils Unbroken Archaeologists

Author:Stephen King

“Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000 years ago, with bizarre stories, peculiar laws, erratic deity, and yet we are able - through argument, selective reading, and desire - to find a powerful framework of laws and moral reasoning that have built a very successful society. So this Bible, for all its oddities and flaws, serves us beautifully after all these years.”

“I truly believe that we each have a House of Belonging waiting for us. Waiting to be found, waiting to be built, waiting to be renovated, waiting to be cleaned up. Waiting to rescue us. Waiting for the real thing: a grown-up, romantic, reciprocal relationship.”

Believe Real Found House Waiting Built Belonging Rescue Real Things Reciprocal

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of these musicians found themselves out of work. They were brought together at Sachal Studios by Izzat Majeed, who built the studio in order to preserve these musical traditions.”

Together Film Law Order Found Social Industry Musician Built Tradition Musical Conservative Studios Preserves Customs Pakistan Music Industry Film And Music

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I'm always blowing the speakers out in studios, like, there's smoke coming out of them. I found out that I'm not built for studio monitors. I record and mix down everything in the headphones and then I bring it to the speakers.”

Found Records Built Studios Smoke Coming Out Speakers Headphones

Author:AraabMuzik

“The more one observes, the more clearly does he see that it is in the soil of pure science that are found the origins of all our modern industry and commerce. In fact,our civilization is wholly built upon our scientific discoveries.”

Doe Facts Found Modern Industry Civilization Pure Discovery Built Soil Commerce Scientific Discovery

Author:Herbert Hoover

“When I came to Mogadishu...here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.”

Ifs Trying Found Force Cities Gun Built Mogadishu

Author:Siad Barre

“Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?”

Home Found Worst Example Built Architecture Enterprise Housing Jerry Private Enterprise

Author:Hugh Dalton

“I built the film [Boy and the World] this way. I gathered all the tools I usually use such as brushes, color pencils, crayons, watercolors, and everything else I found in my studio, and I put them on top of a table. I had this feeling of freedom and possibility like if I was this boy. I was using the boy's freedom to create this film.”

Ifs World Way Use Feelings Film Found Boys Possibility Color Built Tools Tables Studios Brushes Pencils Crayon Watercolors

Author:Alex Abreu

“I have found that the person with a sense of story built in from childhood is in better shape than one who has not had stories . . One knows what stories can do, how they can make up worlds and transpose existence into these worlds. . . .One learns that worlds are made by words and not only by hammers and wires.”

Knows World Persons Made Stories Found Can Do Existence Childhood Shapes Built Wire Hammers

Author:James Hillman

“I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood.”

World War Hard Young Found House Parent Born Childhood Birth Couple Married Built My Family Moved Block Paris War Of The Worlds Flats Apartment Suburbs Second World War Married Couples

Author:Richard Clayderman

“They [Rappites] were moving from Southern Indiana to Pennsylvania, where they had originally settled when they came from Germany. They were looking for someone who wanted to buy a pre-built town, which wouldn't have been appropriate for any kind of normal settlement. That's when Robert Owen [Welsh industrialist and utopian socialist] buys the village and founds New Harmony.”

Kind Has Beens Wanted Moving Found Normal Built Towns Harmony Germany Appropriate Village Southern Socialist Settlement Utopian Indiana Pennsylvania Welsh

Author:Christine Jennings

“I know a lot of great success stories of those who were excellent problem-solvers because they had found a need that they could fill well. As a result, they built organizations around them and those organizations had belief systems that could be described as a form of leadership.”

Knows Needs Wells Stories Problem Form Found Belief Results Built Organization Excellent Great Success Belief Systems Success Stories Problem Solvers

Author:Lewis Schiff

“The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.”

Found Cities Built Stones Addresses Concrete Slate

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Our ability to adapt came from our East African birthplace, a meteorologically unstable place. If you couldn't adapt, you'd be dead. But once you've found a solution, there is no need to continue the adaptive behavioral parrying, which is bioenergetically very expensive to maintain. We are built to find answers, then hang on to them as long as we can.”

Ifs Needs Long Found Ability Answers Solutions Built East Expensive Unstable Adaptive Birthplace Ability To Adapt

Author:John Medina

“I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she had of Dad, memories that soothed her even while they made her sad, because she'd built a world out of them she knew how to survive on even if no one else could.”

Ifs World Made Matter Able Found Winning Memories Dad Understood Built No Matter What

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.”

Thinking Want Found Civilization Creatures Built Curse Killers

Book:Beat The Reaper

Source: Beat The Reaper

“They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.”

Ifs Enough Bigs Might Found Hair Built Mad Mice Nests Headache

Book:Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“Even if you find him. Even if he didn't leave you on purpose, he can't possibly live up to the person you've built him into." It's not like the thought hasn't occurred to me. I get that the chances of finding him are small, but the chances of finding him as I remember him are even smaller. But I just keep going back to what my dad always says, about how when you lose something, you have to visualize the last place you had it. And I found―and then lost―so many things in Paris.”

Ifs Persons Lasts Remember Purpose Found Lost Loses Chance Dad Findings Built My Dad Paris Keep Going Last Place

Author:Gayle Forman

“But America was built by optimists. Optimists like my friend Amanda, who recently started a small business. When she went to buy her website address-her first and last name-she found that someone already owned it, but wasn't using it. So my friend emailed the owner of the site to ask if she could buy it. The owner wrote back.”

Ifs Firsts Lasts America Asks Found Names My Friends Built Addresses Owners Site Optimist Small Business Badass Website Amanda Firsts And Lasts

Author:Eva Longoria

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