Old Buildings Quotes

• Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

  Jane Jacobs

  Ideas, History, Use

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.188, Vintage

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• I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

  Carl Sandburg

  Long Ago, Littles, Happens

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.3, University of Illinois Press

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• We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Country, Needs, Too Late

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• If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Birthday, Long, Age

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

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• New ideas often need old buildings.

  Jane Jacobs

  Ideas, Needs, Building

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• There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect, it wasn't necessarily even pretty, but it was alive. The old buildings smiled, while our new buildings are faceless. The old buildings sang, while the buildings of our age have no music in them.

  Jonathan Hale

  Philosophical, Past, Perfect

  Jonathan Hale (1994). “The Old Way of Seeing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Smell, Soul, Redos

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• Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

  John Osborne

  Architecture, Building, Hard

  'The Entertainer' (1957) no. 7

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• Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Politician, Respectable

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• There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

  Richard Moe

  Community, Here And There, Gone

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• I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

  Farah Diba

  Something New, Wanted, Preserves

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

  Whit Stillman

  Roots, Building, Clinging

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• New ideas must use old buildings

  Jane Jacobs

  Ideas, Use, Abandoned Buildings

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.188, Vintage

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• Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them.... for really new ideas of any kind--no matter how ultimately profitable or otherwise successful some of them might prove to be--there is no leeway for such chancy trial, error and experimentation in the high-overhead economy of new construction. Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

  Jane Jacobs

  Business, Successful, Errors

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• People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

  Katharine Hepburn

  People, Building

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

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• If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

  Bill Dixon

  Painting, Shows, Performances

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• I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

  Ben Katchor

  Building, Oblivious

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

  Rumi

  Change, Firsts, Building

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• It was a very aged, ghostly place; the church had been built many hundreds of years ago, and had once had a convent or monastery attached; for arches in ruins, remains of oriel windows, and fragments of blackened walls, were yet standing-, while other portions of the old building, which had crumbled away and fallen down, were mingled with the churchyard earth and overgrown with grass, as if they too claimed a burying-place and sought to mix their ashes with the dust of men.

  Charles Dickens

  Wall, Men, Dust

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.211

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• Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.

  Jim Butcher

  Wise, Spring, Rain

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.190, Penguin

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• As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even in the Capitol, there’s nothing to match the magnificence of this old building. But there is no give to the surface - only my flesh yields, my warmth taken. Stone conquers people every time.

  Suzanne Collins

  Beautiful, Wall, Taken

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

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• You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

  Rumi

  Sensual, Tears, Ulcers

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• You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very connected with these buildings because they are our history. It is the only one that we have.

  Sonia Braga

  Fire, Catching, So Sad

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

  Jim Harrison

  Funny, Beautiful, Office

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• I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner where there are no curb cuts, because somebody forgot to put them in, and where I have to go two blocks to the corner to do it. A lot of the excuses are, "Well, this is an old building." That's my favorite one. "This is an old building." It's as though 50 years ago, people with disabilities did not exist. As if the disabled are a new problem. It has always been a problem.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Block, Cutting, Years

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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