Bricks Quotes - Page 17

• The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

  Randy Pausch

  Perseverance, Wall, Inspirational Life

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and respect. We are responsible for the homes we build. We must build wisely, for eternity is not a short voyage. There will be calm and wind, sunlight and shadows, joy and sorrow. But if we really try, our home can be a bit of heaven here on earth. The thoughts we think, the deeds we do, the lives we live not only influence the success of our earthly journey, they also mark the way to our eternal goals.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Home, Sacrifice, Thinking

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• Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.

  Alvin Martin

  Football, Cat, Hot

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• Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.

  Heidi Julavits

  Girl, Mother, Running

  Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.14, Anchor

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• Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.

  Harry S. Truman

  Mind, Ems, Quitting

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• The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Support, Silent

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.101, Book Tree

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• My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Jobs, Father, Use

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

  Scott Joplin

  Light, Musical, Shy

  Scott Joplin, Maurice Hinson (1990). “Scott Joplin at the Piano”, p.5, Alfred Music Publishing

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• Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

  Chris Darwin

  Funny, Wall, Climbing

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• There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

  Bill Belichick

  Team, Foundation, Shortcuts

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• All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help tackle global warming...Sustainable development will not just be a subject in the classroom: it will be in its bricks and mortar and the way the school uses and even generates its own power.

  Tony Blair

  Children, Smart, School

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• On how he spent his first Hollywood paycheck "I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10×10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.

  Dave Franco

  Mom, Thinking, Hollywood

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• His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Love, Taken, Eye

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Joy in the Morning: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.26, Random House

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• The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.

  Ayah Bdeir

  Technology, World, Static

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• Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

  Jim Rome

  Soccer, Car, Acting

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• Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Kindness, Home

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Glasses, Window

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• A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Wall, Lessons, Firsts

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• Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry. ... There is progress of California toward building new construction according to earthquake-resistant design. We would have less reason to ask for earthquake prediction if this was universal.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Life, Loss, Science

  Earthquake information bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 8, 1980.

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• It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you
  Because you are always so dear
  You are so dear no matter the year
  But all throughout each day of the year
  There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you
  could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.

  George Orwell

  Niece, Years, Feelings

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• [Richard Drew] always encouraged his people to pursue ideas... He said, "If it's a dumb idea, you'll find out. You'll smack into that brick wall, then you'll stagger back and see another opportunity that you wouldn't have seen otherwise."

  Arthur Fry

  Wall, Science, Opportunity

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• Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.

  Gail Carriger

  Opinion, Lord, Crap

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize.
  Behind every word flows energy.

  Sonia Choquette

  Dream, Healing, Bricks And Mortar

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• It was true what Jim said, this wasn’t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurrough’s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream they’d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.

  Jamie O'Neill

  War, Lying, Rain

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• Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Data, Clay, Cried

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.289

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