#build

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#building #chosen #first #followed #forced

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

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#built #must #nothing #sand #stone

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#baltimore #illinois #indiana #iraq #rebuild

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#away #basics #between #core #family

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#building #built #buying #down #expensive

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#building #campaign #fast #i #learned

If for no other reason than the energy crisis now facing this country, the federal government should be eager to become partners with us in rebuilding our city. ↗

— Jane Byrne

#city #country #crisis #eager #energy

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#architect #birthday #britney #britney spears #buildings

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#been #build #close #empower #linux