Bricks Quotes

• Big things are built one brick at a time. Victories are achieved one choice at a time. A life well lived is chosen one day at a time.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Choices, Victory, One Day At A Time

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2016

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• Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day

  Jeremy Gilley

  One Day, Steps, One Word

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• I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.

  Will Smith

  Wall, Perfect, Today

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• Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.

  Will Smith

  Wall, Focus, Trying

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  A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

  David Brinkley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

  Lydia M. Child

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.

  Zig Ziglar

  Character, Habit

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.290, Pelican Publishing

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• Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Two, Together, Architecture

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• All in all you're just another brick in the wall

  Roger Waters

  Wall, Expression

  Song: Another Brick in the Wall, Part II

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• Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University, news.stanford.edu. June 14, 2005.

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• Even a brick wants to be something

  Louis Kahn

  Want

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• Bricks are independent but can work well with other, tough to crack, fiercely loyal and put in the right spot will hold anything and everything that you’ve ever held dear with the greatest of ease.

  Nicole McKay

  Independent, Cracks, Ease

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• As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

  Terry Pratchett

  World, Patient

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.10, Random House

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• A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Careers, House, Made

  "Portrait of the Artist: Andrea Bocelli, Tenor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

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• This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Lonely, Comforting, Cold

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.265, Scholastic UK

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• Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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

  Suetonius

  Cities, Augustus Caesar, Found

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• A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

  Michael Chiklis

  Actors, Layers, Lays

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• Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

  Eminem

  Fame

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• A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Inspirational, Freedom, Philosophy

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.13, A&C Black

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• Three men were laying brick. The first was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " Laying some brick." The second man was asked: " What are you working for? " He answered: " Five dollars a day." The third man was asked: " What are you doing? He answered: " I am helping to build a great cathedral." Which man are you?

  Charles R. Schwab

  Men, Dollars, Three

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• There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

  Barack Obama

  Block, America, Government

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

  Dorothy Day

  Progress, Steps, One Step At A Time

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• When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

  Bruce Barton

  Spring, Believe, Moving

  Masonic News, Volume 8, p. 181, 1927.

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• I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

  Augustus

  Latin, Rome, Cities

  "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, August 28, 2013.

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