“He could boast that he inherited it brick and left it marble.”

“Aware that the city was architecturally unworthy of her position as capital of the Roman Empire, besides being vulnerable to fire and river floods, Augustus so improved her appearance that he could justifiably boast: "I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble."”
Urbem neque pro maiestate imperii ornatam et inundationibus incendiisque obnoxiam excoluit adeo, ut iure sit gloriatus marmoream se relinquere, quam latericiam accepisset.

“A Pole is a man born with a sword in his right hand, a brick in his left. When the battle is over, he starts to rebuild.”

“He is a winner. He is the inheritance of Real Madrid.”

“You cannot take the world through inheritance and boasting, you can take it only by wielding the sword in battle.”

“Keynes was an applied economist who turned to inventing theory because the theory he had inherited could not properly explain what was happening.”

“His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.”

“Since such very powerful kings have not disdained walls built of brick, although… they might often have had them not only of masonry or dimension stone but even of marble, I think that one ought not to reject buildings made of brick-work, provided that they are properly "topped."”

“No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.”

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”