#building

When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context." - Jonathan Hale, The Old Way of Seeing, 1994 ↗

— Jonathan Hale

#architecture #building #new-urbanism #architecture

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character. ↗

— David O. McKay

#education #ethics #mentoring #art

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#ancestry #build #building-blocks #globe-trotting #inspiration

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... ↗

— Criss Jami

#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#been #brink #building #empty #him

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches. ↗

— Kit Bond

#american values #building #businesses #end #family

This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. ↗

— Cory Booker

#ancestors #bridges #building #dam #growth

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area. ↗

— Gordon Brown

#britain #building #cell #cell research #center

We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#building #finance #iraqis #matter #mission

And exciting buildings are fine periodically. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#exciting #fine #periodically