#built

The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit. ↗

— John Joly

#built #collective #feeble #many #miles

Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#built #church #community #european #got

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends. ↗

— Kim Kardashian

#built-in #friends #having #like #lots

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#complexity #layered #modules #other #out

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#body #built #design #extinct #given

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#asylum #built #dean #dreams #himself

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#built #how #memory #much #surprising

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#hackers #machines #new #opened #others

I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#because #bit #book #built-in #comic

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in. ↗

— Eric Roberts

#built #characters #comes #describing #ease