Built Quotes

I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence… sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

I thought I’ve moved farther only to find out that I’ve built my walls higher.

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.

I don’t like talking. It’s how I’m built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don’t mind talking or smiling, it’s just I don’t do it very much. I haven’t got a smiling face or a talking mouth.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

You can walk in and out. I have built no doors.

In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone … the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds … that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth.

Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.