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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley

Success, Man, Foundation, Successful

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. - Augustus

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. Augustus

City, Rome, Left, Marble, Found

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind. B. R. Ambedkar

Mind, Down, Line, Like, Wall, Physical

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Together, Architecture, You, Two, Begins

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse. Andrea Bocelli

Value, Career, House, Brick, Same, Like

Children need to move to develop their brain; it's a natural urge. That's why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can't help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that's uniquely their own. Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Children, Brain, Soccer, Help, Building

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Together, Architecture, Place, You, Two

Many creative people are finding that creativity doesn't grow in abundance, it grows from scarcity - the more Lego bricks you have doesn't mean you're going to be more creative; you can be very creative with very few Lego bricks. Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

Creativity, Creative, People, Grow, You

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! Edward Abbey

Nature, Myself, Flowers, Free, Plant

I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on. Alan Moore

History, Construction, Think, Place, You

What's really cool about LEGOs is that you can put a bunch of bricks on the table, and everybody will make something different. Everyone has different ideas, and some of them may seem crazy. Christopher Miller

Cool, Ideas, Crazy, You, Will, Table

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks. Eminem

Me, Fame, Like, Hit, Ton

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. William Blake

Religion, Law, Stones, Prisons, Built

The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses. Anselm Kiefer

Childhood, Me, Buildings, Project, Toys

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. Lydia M. Child

Success, Building, Important, Successful

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Plutarch

Man, Chance, Left, Clay, Fortune, Then

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. Benjamin Britten

Color, Road, Details, Driving, Down, You

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. Alan Kay

Integrity, Today, Software, Done, Top

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls. Lars von Trier

Plan, Play, Tennis, Need, Improvisation

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks. P. G. Wodehouse

Reach, Within, Few, Trusted, Them, Were

Bricks and mortar Berlin has become a kind of network across which visitors and residents interact as if on some sort of comfortable global platform. Rory MacLean

Kind, Comfortable, Become, Some, Which

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. Michael Leunig

Death, Yourself, Small, Better, You, Say

I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just came out. I played percussion for a while, and stayed after school forever just tinkering around with different things, the clarinets and the violins. Quincy Jones

School, Me, Band, Choir, Forever, Like

Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Knowledge, Alone, Together, World, End

I learned how to cover race riots by telephone. They didn't pay me enough at my first newspaper job to venture onto the grounds of South Boston High School when bricks were being thrown. Instead, I would telephone the headmaster and ask him to relay to me the number of broken chairs in the cafeteria each day. Gwen Ifill

Day, School, Job, Broken, Me, Race

Out of all my friends, I believe I'm the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in construction sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad said that it's important in the future that when we tell people to dig a hole, that you personally know how long it will take to dig that hole. Eric Trump

Work, Future, Construction, Summer, Long

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