Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meles Zenawi

We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.

Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.

We didn't do a very good job of executing our half-court offense in the second half, but fortunately, we had built such a big lead that we were able to hang on.

Leon Bridges

Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started.

Sharon Jones

At first, they told me it was just bile-duct cancer, but once they went in, they removed the gallbladder, the head of my pancreas, and a foot-and-a-half of my small intestine, and built me another bile duct and connected it to my stomach. It turned out to be pancreatic cancer, stage two, so, very aggressive.

Sal Albanese

I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games.

Alice Morse Earle

The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.

Andre Rieu

Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together.

We still had to show our respect to Vermont because they came out and played hard and they're a respectful team. They're a team that's built their history, too, so you've got to respect those guys.

The question is, by the time you engage, whether you've built a battleship that can inflict punishment and maybe take a little.

Tony Cox

Tracks like Iowa Speedway are not built every day. It's going to be a state-of-the-art facility,

This street is so built up we would cut driveways. It would be better to shift to another area.

Casey Hampton

To be a nose tackle and to play in this defense, you couldn't want anything else. I'm built for this type of defense.

Tom Rath

I think trust is primarily built through relationships, and it's important because it's the foundational currency that a leader has with his team or his followers.

Sam Houston

Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.

Taylor Wilson

I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.

Lakshmi Mittal

I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.

We had no desk; we had nothing. So we were using these boxes. We built our own desk setup and used it for 60 days. That's how deep it was when we first came.

Chris King

When they built the first one in 1981, they didn't have the technology to do much. They tried to play with color and form, but they were pretty much stuck with a box.

Lauren Bacall

I'm not tough, and I never have been. I suppose over the years I've built up kind of a veneer to protect myself because I have functioned on my own for a long, long time, and I have never had a lot of flunkies preceding me to clear the way.

Mo Ibrahim

While the Marshall Plan was important for Europe's recovery, Europe's prosperity was really built on economic integration and policy coherence.

The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.

Mike Pence

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I built a guest house on my property so that my mom could help me fostering animals. I do multiple fosters a month.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Christopher Atkins

They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over.

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

Don Winslow

The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.

Drew Goddard

I grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, which is my hometown. In Los Alamos is, for people who don't know, a nuclear lab that built the atomic bomb. The only reason the town exists is to make nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction, and that's still happening there.

Peter Zumthor

I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.

We recognize that the typical house built in the 1920s may be smaller than what people want today.

We recognize that countries have the right to take necessary measures to enhance their own security. But it's our view that this enhanced security should not be built at the cost of other countries' security.