Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us."
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Building
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there."
Charles Darwin
Naturalist, Geologist
"Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architect
"I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Activist, Diplomat
"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death."
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"More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building."
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"Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth."
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"I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all."
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"By law, all buildings should be white."
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"All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave."
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"I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason."
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"Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?"
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"People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings."
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"Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building."
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"Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody."
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"In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction."
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"From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences."
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"We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new."
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"We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another."
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"Love is a wave building to a crescendo. Ride if you will, ride it with me."
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"When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it."
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"Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body."
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"Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached."
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"Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models."
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"When does a building actually become a built?"
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