Mortar Quotes - Page 4

• Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Strong, Religion, Liberty

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• If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed.

  Evadne Price

  War, Distance, Gun

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• We're here because we want to go to the Orient House. We're here because this is our city. It's an occupied city, I know. They have arms, they have weapons, they have police, they have mortar guns, but it is Palestinian and it is under occupation.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Gun, Cities, House

  "U.S. Warns Americans Against Mideast Travel". "CNN Saturday Morning News", www.cnn.com. August 11, 2001.

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• To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

  Saadi

  Hands, Attendance, Use

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• Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This will make a pretty black for fresco painting.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Black, Shaving, Splinters

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter X, Section 3), circa 15 BC.

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• In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Winter, Order, Years

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter I, Section 6), circa 15 BC.

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• Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

  Benjamin Britten

  Bricks And Mortar, Fog, Driving

  "The Classical Music Experience: Discover the Music of the World's Greatest Composers". Book by Julius H. Jacobson (p.341), 2008.

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Bricks And Mortar, Empathy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Years, Bricks And Mortar

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.617, Wordsworth Editions

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Character, Men, Bricks And Mortar

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

  Garrison Keillor

  War, School, Community

  Garrison Keillor (2004). “Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America”, p.85, Penguin

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• The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

  Christopher Wren

  Secret, Excellence, Dachshunds

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