built quotes

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It isnotthestreetsthatexist.It isthestreetsthat no longer exist. It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget. What you must go on forgetting all your life.

-James Fenton
  'A German Requiem'.

Nous avons ba"  ti sur le sable Des cathe  drales impe  rissables. We have built immovable cathedrals In the sand.

- Andre   Paul Guillaume Gide
  Paludes.

Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way, It ran a hundred years to a day.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.11.

Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show Of touch or marble, nor canst boast a row Of polished pillars, or a roof of gold; Thou hast no lantern whereof tales are told, Or stair, or courts; but standst an ancient pile, And these grudged at, art reverenced the while.

- Ben Jonson
  The Forest,'To Penshurst'.

Don't wait for schools to be built. Teach the children under the nearest tree.

- Bin Said Qaboos
  Quoted by Rosalind Miles in'An Oxonian in Oman', in OxfordToday, vol.7, no.2, Hilary Issue,1995.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built for ever.

-Tennyson
  Idylls of the King,'Gareth and Lynette',1.272^4.