Bricks Quotes:

I could break bricks with my hands when I was 12.

- Akshay Kumar

topic: Hands, Bricks, Break

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

source: "Portrait of the Artist: Andrea Bocelli, Tenor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

topic: Careers, House, Bricks

You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Writing, Artist, Bricks, Laborers

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Data, Clay, Bricks, Deductions

The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.

- Ayah Bdeir

topic: Technology, World, Bricks, Interactive, Transistors

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

- Bernard Tschumi

source: Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.247, MIT Press

topic: Eye, Shelter, Bricks, Bricks And Mortar, General Public

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

- Bill Delahunt

topic: Community, Lines, Bricks, Sales Tax, Mortar

How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?

- Bruno Schulz

source: Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics

topic: Meaningful, Wall, Bricks, Meaningful Things

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

- Bryan Cranston

topic: Needs, Bricks, Tvs

What's the point in wasting a perfectly good brick wall when you have someone to throw against it, that's what I always say.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Wall, Bricks, Fallen Angels, Isabelle Lightwood, City Of Fallen Angels

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish

- Charles Reznikoff

source: Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.107, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: Lying, Rubbish, Bricks, Plasters

I did not threaten anybody in any moment and even less with a brick.

- Chico Flores

topic: Football, League, Bricks

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.

- CM Punk

topic: Hater, Empires, Bricks

We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick

- David Ervine

topic: Hands, Bricks

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

- David Simon

topic: Bricks

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

- Dorothy Day

topic: Progress, Bricks, Steps

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

- Eminem

topic: Bricks, Fame

A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

- Frederick W. Smith

topic: Christian, Velvet, Bricks

Lord Maccon was built like a brick outhouse, with opinions twice as unmoving and often equally full of crap.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Bricks, Opinion, Lord

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.

- Grace Jones

source: "We're Off to See the Wizard (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)" (song) (1939)

topic: Yellow, Flow, Bricks, Brick Roads, Yellow Brick Road

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

- Henry Kett

topic: Hands, Years, Bricks

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

- Jack Dee

topic: Swimming, Feet, Bricks

Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day

- Jeremy Gilley

topic: One Day, Bricks, Steps

He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet." But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.

- Jill Shalvis

topic: Gold, Bricks, Bars, Candy Bar

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

- John Bonham

topic: Wall, Bricks, Sometimes, Brick Wall

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

- John Dos Passos

source: John Dos Passos (1970). “The theme is freedom”

topic: Views, Bricks, Add, Edifice

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

- John R. Platt

topic: Lying, Add, Bricks

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

- John Szarkowski

source: William Eggleston, John Szarkowski (2002). “William Eggleston's Guide”

topic: Different, World, Bricks

In truth I was manufacturing a brick wall of shits.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Wall, Bricks, Brick Wall

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

- Kate Mosse

source: "Author, author: Kate Mosse" by Kate Mosse, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

topic: Library, Watches, Bricks

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Air, Breathing, Bricks

He really wished she would stop fingering the brick.

- Larissa Ione

topic: Bricks

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

- Leigh Bardugo

topic: Wish, Stones, Bricks

Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.

- Lionel Shriver

source: Lionel Shriver (2007). “The Post-Birthday World”, Harper

topic: Passion, Bricks, Lovers

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

- Lord Dunsany

topic: Memories, Imagination, Bricks

Even a brick wants to be something

- Louis Kahn

topic: Want, Bricks

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'

- Louis Kahn

topic: Thinking, Bricks, Looks

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

topic: Two, Together, Bricks, Modern Architecture, Architecture And Art

This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Lonely, Comforting, Bricks

If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick.

- Mark Twain

topic: Doubt, Bricks, Watches

Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw ...

- Mary Astell

source: 1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

topic: Men, Want, Bricks, Infancy Is, Reproach

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

- Michael Chiklis

topic: Bricks, Actors, Layers

Build your life brick upon brick, Live a life of truth, And you will look back on a life of truth. Live a life of fantasy, And you will look back on delusion.

- Ming-Dao Deng

topic: Motivational, Bricks, Looks

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

- Muhammad Yunus

topic: Roots, Pieces, Bricks, Enviromental

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.

- Neil Gaiman

topic: Stuff, Bricks, Clay

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

- Nick Clegg

topic: Book, Reading, Bricks

If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

- Nicole McKay

topic: Art, Struggle, Bricks, Money Problem

You should go into every relationship as a brick and not a blanket.

- Nicole McKay

topic: Bricks, Should, Blanket

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.

- Nicole McKay

topic: Book, Flower, Bricks

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

- Nicole McKay

topic: Rocks, House, Bricks, Building Houses

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw ...

- Patricia Moyes

topic: Frustrated, Bricks, Journalism

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

- Pau Gasol

source: ""I've Never, Ever Liked Elvis": an Interview with Laker Pau Gasol". Interview with Dan Gurley, bleacherreport.com. May 8, 2008.

topic: Bullets, Way, Bricks, Mailboxes

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

- Paul Simon

topic: Wall, Believe, Bricks, Brick Wall, Supernatural Powers

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

- Peter Maxwell Davies

topic: Art, Wall, Bricks, Brick Wall, Cutbacks

To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.

- Philip Larkin

topic: Work, Bricks, Add

The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society

- Pope Francis

topic: People, Bricks, Building, Inspirational Family

Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Wall, Bricks, Helpful

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.

- Ray Bolger

topic: Lonely, Yellow, Bricks, Brick Roads, Yellow Brick Road

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

- Red Smith

topic: Writing, Bricks, Bricklaying

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

- Rian Johnson

topic: Scripts, Bricks

The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.

- Rian Johnson

topic: People, Bricks, Boards

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

- Rufus Wainwright

topic: Gold, Bricks, Existence

If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

- Russell Simmons

topic: Wall, Digging, Bricks, Brick Wall

I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.

- Ryan Stiles

topic: Yellow, Car, Bricks, Car Rental, Brick Roads

We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

- Samuel Fuller

topic: Democracy, Bricks, Nazi, Expediency

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in

- Sandra Cisneros

topic: Doors, Bricks, Crumbling, Swollen, Front Doors

She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.

- Sarah Waters

source: Sarah Waters (2006). “The Night Watch”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

topic: Space, House, Bricks

Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

- Scott Lynch

topic: Enlightenment, Bricks

My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it

- Scott Lynch

source: Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1999, Del Rey

topic: Bullshit, Bricks, Tangible, Disinterest

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun.

- Shakira

source: "'I Know What I Stand For'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. November 29, 2009.

topic: Careers, Sun, Bricks

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

- Sol LeWitt

source: Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

topic: Artist, Bricks, Foundation

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

- Stephen Leacock

topic: Trust, Half, Bricks, Half Truth

He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]

- Suetonius

topic: Cities, Bricks, Augustus, Augustus Caesar

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

- Suetonius

source: Suetonius (1980). “The twelve Caesars”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Rome, Bricks, Found

It's nice to be able to engage with this fan base that I've worked to build, brick by brick.

- Terri Clark

topic: Nice, Able, Bricks

Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.

- Thomas Huxley

topic: Simple, Sun, Bricks, Artifice

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

- Tim Cook

topic: Justice, Together, Bricks

The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.

- Van Cliburn

topic: Inspirational, Bricks, Life Is, Mortar

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

- Walter Winchell

topic: Success, Bricks, Way

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

- William J. H. Boetcker

topic: Strong, Men, Bricks, Strong Man, Weak Man

Follow the yellow brick road.

- Yip Harburg

topic: Yellow, Bricks, Brick Roads, Wizard Of Oz Wizard, Good Witch

I love the long-form rehearsal process with theater, brick by brick, to build another life.

- Vik Sahay

topic: Long, Rehearsal, Bricks

All in all you're just another brick in the wall

- Roger Waters

source: Song: Another Brick in the Wall, Part II

topic: Wall, Expression, Bricks

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

- Shashi Tharoor

source: Speech at the UN's World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2001.

topic: Together, Democracy, Bricks, Freedom Of The Press

A heap of bricks is not yet a house.

- I. L. Peretz

topic: House, Bricks

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home.

- Tara Fela-Durotoye

topic: Home, House, Bricks

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

- John Oates

topic: Bricks And Mortar, Bricks, Mortar

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

- John Simon

source: "Michael Billington on actors" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2012.

topic: Funny, Flying, Bricks, Mausoleum

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.33, e-artnow

topic: Book, Library, Bricks, Muttering

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

topic: Bricks, Honest, Trade

The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

- Patricia Briggs

source: Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.824, Penguin

topic: Sexy, Body, Bricks

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Thinking, Glasses, Bricks

Before Kuhn, most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth's temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed.

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: "An Urchin in the Storm". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Cardboard Darwinism", p. 27, 1987.

topic: Self, Vision, Bricks, Keystones

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

- Aleksandar Hemon

source: "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

topic: Personality, Stories, Bricks

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4493, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Wall, Bricks, Blame, Wailing

I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.

- Sylvia Day

source: Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.161, Penguin

topic: Wall, Bricks, Brick Wall

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.

- CM Punk

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hater, Empires, Bricks, My Haters

Every apathetic individual is a brick in a tyrant's throne.

- Philip Slater

topic: Tyrants, Thrones, Bricks, Apathetic

Box-office poison? Mr. Louis B. Mayer always asserted that the studio had built Stage 22, Stage 24 and the Irving Thalberg Building, brick by brick, from the income on my pictures.

- Joan Crawford

topic: Office, Bricks, Income, Mayer

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Way, Bricks, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Mendacity

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

- Teresa of Avila

topic: Noble, Dirt, Bricks

As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.10, Random House

topic: World, Bricks, Patient

I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

- Dan Savage

source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

topic: Ephemeral, Radio, Bricks, Seattle

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.218

topic: Men, House, Bricks

What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.85, Courier Corporation

topic: Work, Bricks, Divine, Barbers, Barber Shop

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

topic: Writing, Style, Bricks

The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at.

- Mark Twain

source: Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.101, Book Tree

topic: Lying, Support, Bricks

I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.

- Tom Hanks

topic: Have Faith, Scripts, Bricks

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

- Tom Stoppard

source: Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.108, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Men, Bricks, Drowning, Down Time

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

- David Mitchell

topic: Eggs, Bad Mood, Bricks

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

- Arnold Bennett

source: Arnold Bennett (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)”, p.10463, Delphi Classics

topic: Ideas, Firsts, Bricks, Straws

In fact if I see you drinking I'll come down on you like a ton of bricks and call your mom.

- Ayelet Waldman

source: Source: m.motherjones.com

topic: Mom, Drinking, Bricks

Whenever the press quits abusing me I know Im in the wrong pew. I dont mind it because when they throw bricks at meIm a pretty good shot myself and I usually throw em back at em.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Mind, Ems, Bricks

Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (1976). “The question of things happening”, Vintage

topic: Wall, Writing, Bricks

Conversation, fastidious goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.918, Delphi Classics

topic: Blood, Bricks, Goddess, Fastidious

The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he’s building a home, not just laying bricks.

- Herb Kelleher

topic: Home, Important, Bricks, Bricklayers, Building A Home

Is it possible, after all, that spite of bricks and shaven faces, this world we live in is brimmed with wonders, and I and all mankind, beneath our garbs of common-placeness, conceal enigmas that the stars themselves, and perhaps the highest seraphim can not resolve?

- Herman Melville

source: Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.179, Herman Melville

topic: Stars, Faces, Bricks

You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall.

- Will Smith

topic: Wall, Trying, Bricks

A clear thought, a pure affection, a resolute act of a virtuous will, have a dignity of quite another kind, and far higher than accumulations of brick and granite and plaster and stucco, however cunningly put together.

- William Ellery Channing

source: William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.7

topic: Together, Bricks, Dignity, Plasters, Granite

Well, duh. He was six feet, six inches tall and built like a brick shithouse.

- J.R. Ward

source: J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.175, Penguin

topic: Feet, Duh, Bricks

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

- L. Frank Baum

source: TheWonderful Wizard of Oz ch. 2 (1900). The phrase "yellow brick road" does not appear in this book. See Harburg 6

topic: Cities, Yellow, Bricks, Brick Roads, Yellow Brick Road

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.

- Zig Ziglar

source: Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.290, Pelican Publishing

topic: Character, Bricks, Habit

I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Caring, Together, Bricks, Mortar

I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish."

- Carl Andre

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Hate, House, Bricks, Bricklayers

You could carve out the inside of a brick and hide your money in it for safe keeping. It’s certainly safer than keeping it in the bank!

- Nicole McKay

topic: Safe Keeping, Safe, Bricks

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

- P. G. Wodehouse

source: P.G. Wodehouse (2012). “What Ho!: The Best of Wodehouse”, p.18, Random House

topic: Bricks, Within Reach, Trusted

Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

topic: Rights, White, Bricks