Jackie Kennedy
First Lady
"We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them."
Old Buildings quotes
Old Buildings
33 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jim Harrison
Novelist, Poet
"That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park."
Katharine Hepburn
Actress
"If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one."
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"Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age."
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"I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building."
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"People have grown fond of me, like some old building."
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