Cement Quotes

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  If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

  Cher

  Love, Motivational, Soulmate

  "The Times" Newspaper, May 20, 1998.

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• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Friendship, Patience, Cousin

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.258, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Wisdom, Strong, Men

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• The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.

  R. G. LeTourneau

  Together, Pebbles

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• Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.

  Bud Wilkinson

  Sports, Team, Together

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• Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate.

  Lois Wyse

  Hate, Love Is, Glue

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• The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.

  Le Corbusier

  Space, Order, Sky

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• I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

  Clifford Stoll

  Data, Library, Fifty

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• Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.

  John Dryden

  Foundation, Truth Is

  John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.23, Univ of California Press

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• Cement doesn't give as much as snow.

  Shaun White

  Snow, Giving

  Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2009.

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• Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Writing, Emotional, Childhood

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• Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.

  Yasser Arafat

  Blow, Together, World

  Time Magazine (New York), November 11, 1974.

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• Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

  Albert Camus

  New York, Insomnia, Islands

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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• Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

  Robertson Davies

  Curiosity, Together

  Robertson Davies (1983). “High spirits”, Viking Adult

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• The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dark, Moon, Rocks

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement.

  Anna Quindlen

  Long, Pieces, Life Is

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Moving, Political, Mixing

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• Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

  Robert Blair

  Friendship, Sweet, Soul

  Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.8

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• A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.

  George Iles

  Men, Unity, Use

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• The first year of marriage is like wet cement

  Robert Wolgemuth

  Years, Firsts, First Year Marriage

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• Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Long, Would Be

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• Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.114

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• What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Love You, Kissing

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.159

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• The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set.

  Robert Wolgemuth

  Wedding, Years, Firsts

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