(121 quotes found)
“Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.”
Candice Bergen
“The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola”
Douglas Adams
“All and All your just another brick in the wall.”
Pink Floyd
“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.”
William Blake
“Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.”
P. G. Wodehouse
“I found Rome brick, I left it marble.”
Augustus Caesar
“If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.”
Edmund Wilson
“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
“How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?”
Charles Lindbergh
“When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.”
Bruce Barton
