Bricks Quotes - Page 6

• Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I'd love to be a Fairy's child.

  Robert Graves

  Running, Strong, Children

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

  Amy Dickinson

  Wall, Women, Healthy

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• Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.

  Steve Jobs

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Faces

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• Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Running, Wall

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• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  Jack Dee

  Swimming, Feet, Praying

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• In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

  George D. Prentice

  New York, Twilight, Cities

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• Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

  Alexander Pope

  Son, Feet, Paper

  1742 The Dunciad, bk.4, l.127-30.

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• You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.

  Chris Hadfield

  Wall, Together, Collaboration

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.69, Pan Macmillan

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• Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Should Have, Cities, Together

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.817, e-artnow

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• As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.

  Tom Brevoort

  Next, Firsts, Stories

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• Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm.

  Allen Carr

  Men, Order, Alarms

  Allen Carr (2009). “Easy Way to Control Alcohol”, p.80, Arcturus Publishing

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• You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Artist, Damn

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Feet, Gold, Hammers

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• Before Kuhn, most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth's temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Self, Vision, Revolution

  "An Urchin in the Storm". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Cardboard Darwinism", p. 27, 1987.

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

  Suetonius

  Rome, Found, Marble

  Suetonius (1980). “The twelve Caesars”, Penguin Group USA

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• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Science, Men

  "The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge".

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• A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Christian, Velvet, Covered

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• Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why we call it the present. If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And If not now, when? A brick alone is nothing but a brick. It takes a collection of bricks to build a house. Instructor, what?? You mean you teach best what you most need to learn

  Richard Bach

  Leadership, Sports, Mean

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• Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  Oscar Wilde

  Brother, Men, Bars

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

  Nicole McKay

  Art, Struggle, Problem

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• Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project in history. The headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company used to be brick. What they did was take the old brick building - with the operators in there saying, "Number please" and all that - and they put it through a quarter of a turn and moved it half a block!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Block, Moving, Numbers

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• What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Divine, Barbers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities ... We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, School, Cities

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, delivered 16 April 1953, Statler Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Bricks And Mortar, Order, Mind

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

  Walter Winchell

  Success, Way

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