Quotes about building
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“Nations have, in the past, concentrated all their efforts on the accomplishment of one great task, but this has been so in times of war only. During the World War, Germany and England and France lived for one purpose only - to win the war. To that purpose everything else was subordinated. Soviet Russia, for the first time in history, concentrated the whole strength of the nation in a peaceful effort to build, and not to destroy, to raise a backward country industrially and within a framework of socialism.”

Jawaharlal Nehru book Glimpses of World History

Glimpses of World History (1949)

War, World, Peace, History

“For Russia, therefore, this building of heavy industries at a tremendous pace meant a very great sacrifice. All this construction, all this machinery that came from outside, had to be paid for, and paid for in gold and cash. How was this to be done? The people of the Soviet Union tightened their belts and starved and deprived themselves of even necessary articles so that payment could be made abroad. They sent their food-stuffs abroad, and with the price obtained for them paid for the machinery. They sent everything they could find a market for: wheat, rye, barley, corn, vegetables, fruits, eggs, butter, meat, fowls, honey, fish, caviare, sugar, oils, confectionery, etc. Sending these food articles outside meant that they themselves did without them. The Russian people had no butter, or very little of it, because it went abroad to pay for machinery. And so with many other goods…”

Jawaharlal Nehru book Glimpses of World History

Glimpses of World History (1949)

People, Food, Fish

“The moment one constructs a device to carry into practice a crude idea, he finds himself unavoidably engrossed with the details of the apparatus. As he goes on improving and reconstructing, his force of concentration diminishes and he loses sight of the great underlying principle.… I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.”

Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) Serbian American inventor

My Inventions (1919)

Making love, Imagination, Idea, Change

“Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. … Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say, you cannot love game and hate predators; you cannot conserve the waters and waste the ranges; you cannot build the forest and mine the farm. The land is one organism.”

Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist

"Conservation" (c. 1938); Published in Round River, Luna B. Leopold (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1966, p. 145-146.
1930s

Love, Men, Hate, Making love

“You can only build a life from what is real. Unless you know and admit to what you really think, really feel, really want, really need and actually do, you are working with illusion and you are going nowhere.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Life, Feeling, Thinking

“The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin, even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they're manifestations of the same thing...They spring from the same source. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. It's our attempt as humans to build an understanding of the universe, the world around us. It's our attempt to influence things, the universe internal to ourselves and external to us.”

Mae Jemison (1956) American doctor and NASA astronaut

2002 TED talk by Mae Jemison https://www.ted.com/talks/mae_jemison_on_teaching_arts_and_sciences_together/transcript?language=en, TED talk "Teach arts and sciences together," February, 2002

World, Art, Spring, Understanding

“[I]t’s not just KiwiBuild. For us, it’s also making sure that we start building those state houses again; we’ve lost stock. And we’ve set ourselves a goal of at least 1000 a year. First step for us is getting a form of affordable housing commission up and running. [...] Before you are able to start getting the hammer out, you’ve got to make sure that we’re able to do the overall planning that will be required.”

Jacinda Ardern (1980) Prime Minister of New Zealand

Interview with Lisa Owen at Newshub Nation, 21 October 2017

Making love, Housing

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men and women to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator

Disputed

Women, Men, Relation ships, Sea

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator

Disputed

People, Relation ships, Sea

“If you wish to build a ship, do not divide the men into teams and send them to the forest to cut wood. Instead, teach them to long for the vast and endless sea.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) French writer and aviator

Disputed

Men, Relation ships, Sea

“We have given of our best to build up the Empire. We recall the names of Wellington, of Roberts, of White of Ladysmith, and we think of Coghill of Isandula, around whose body when it was found dead the flag of the British race, the old Union Jack, was found. All these were men of loyalist Ireland and mainly of Ulster. And now, forsooth, this great England, the great country that boasts of liberty, of adherence to principle, and of never deserting its friends, is to sacrifice the loyalists to the necessity of maintaining this heaven-sent Government in power.”

Edward Carson, Baron Carson (1854–1935) Irish politician, barrister and judge

Speech in Eastbourne (25 November 1911), quoted in The Times (27 November 1911), p. 7

Men, Thinking, Dead, Country

“Leaders typically don’t follow the crowd, that is unless they’re trying to escape a burning building.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1995

“Stalin was an example of creativity, humanism and an edifying example of peace and heroism! [...] Everything that he did, he did at the service of the people. Our father Stalin is dead, but when remembering his example, our affection towards him will make our arms grow strong for the building of a great tomorrow, to assure a future in memory of his magnificent example.”

Salvador Allende (1908–1973) Chilean physician and politician

Speech at the Baquedano Theater, Santiago, Chile (1953) https://web.archive.org/web/20101222183523/https://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc1011/nsc1011.pdf

People, Making love, Peace, Strong

“Coral reefs are farmers. They provide food, income and food security for hundreds of millions of people around the world. Coral reefs are security guards. The structures that they build protect our shorelines from storm surge and waves, and the biological systems that they house filter the water and make it safer for us to work and play. Coral reefs are chemists. The molecules that we're discovering on coral reefs are increasingly important in the search for new antibiotics and new cancer drugs. And coral reefs are artists. The structures that they build are some of the most beautiful things on planet Earth. And this beauty is the foundation of the tourism industry in many countries with few or little other natural resources.”

Kristen Marhaver American marine biologist

Source: How we're growing baby corals to rebuild reefs https://www.ted.com/talks/kristen_marhaver_how_we_re_growing_baby_corals_to_rebuild_reefs (October 2015)

People, World, Making love, Food

“The main thing for us to remember is that, the same crime element that white people are scared of, black people are scared of. The same crime element that white people fear, black people fear. So we defend our self from the same crime element that they are scared of, you know what I'm saying, while they are waiting for legislations to pass and everything, we're next door to the killer, we're next door to him you know. Because we up in the projects where it's 80 niggas in the building. All them killers that they letting out, they're right there in that building. Just because we're black we get along with the killers or something? We get along with rapist's because we're black and from the same hood? What is that? We need protection too.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)

People, Fear, Waiting, Self-confidence

“Building your personal brand is one of the few ways you can ensure that you don't stay broke.”

Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker

Source: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11882368/bio?ref_=nm_dyk_qt_sm#quotes

Way, Personality

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Way

“Unfortunately, it is easier to destroy a country than to re-build it.”

Robert Sarah (1945) Roman Catholic bishop

God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith (2015)

Country

“It should be noted first and foremost that any nation, any people with the great goal of building a free and just life of a just society in its country, is going through a difficult, thorny and complex path of development.”

Shavkat Mirziyoyev (1957) President of Uzbekistan (2016-present)

Interview with the Editor-in-Chief of the «Yangi Uzbekiston» https://thediplomaticinsight.com/interview-president-of-the-republic-of-uzbekistan-shavkat-mirziyoyev/ (19 August 2021)

Life, People, Country

“At first we are all strangers, until you decide to approach. Only effective communication can break this barrier and build the bridge of friendship.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Friendship, Communication

“Making or writing a movie, to me, is like building a watch because a watch is so small and you only can fit so many things inside it that all the pieces really do need to work together.”

William Eubank (1982) American film director

[Eubank, William, Ash Thorp, Episode 182 — William Eubank, Interview (event occurs at 43:37–43:50), https://www.thecollectivepodcast.com/episodes/182-william-eubank, MP3; 1h 44m, The Collective Podcast, Los Angeles, California, June 25, 2018, 2018, June]

“It’s a very American thing to build up and break down and come back. It is in its own weird way the heroes journey.”

Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor

Source: "‘Colbert’: Robert Downey Jr. Grateful His “Misbehavior” Years Were Pre-Internet" https://deadline.com/2021/02/robert-downey-jr-stephen-colbert-late-show-avengers-misbehavior-years-were-pre-internet-1234689537/ (8 February 2021)

Way

“We embrace this dream altogether, regardless of our class, our region, and our religious community. All these are secondary to me compared to human dignity, compared to the respect for the human being and the individual, compared to the right of the Lebanese to enjoy security, safety, and equality without any discrimination whatsoever, this is what matters to me. We must build the state of today for the year 2000, we do not want to go backward, restore and build on the remnants of the state of 1943.”

Bachir Gemayel (1947–1982) Lebanese politician and militia commander

Source: History of the Kataeb Party

Dreams, Communication

“I have learned that…
you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them.
No matter how much I care, some people just don't care back.
It takes years to build up trust, and only seconds to destroy it.
It's not what you have in your life, but who you have in your life that counts.
You can do something in an instant that will give you a heartache for life.
No matter how thin you slice it, there are always two sides.
You should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
We are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
There are people who love you dearly, but just don't know how to show it.
True friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. The same goes for true love.
Just because someone doesnt love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
Maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
No matter how good a friend someone is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
No matter how bad your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
Just because two people argue, it doesn't mean they don't love each other. And just because they don't argue, it doesn't mean they do.
We don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
You shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.
There are so many ways of falling and staying in love.
No matter how many friends you have, if you are their pillar, you will feel lonely and lost at the times you need them most.
The people you care most about in life are taken from you too soon.
Although the word "love" can have many different meanings, it loses value when overly used.
Love is not for me to keep, but to pass on to the next person I see.
There are people who love you dearly but just don't know how to show it.
Every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love that human touch-holding hands, a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
I still have a lot to learn……”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Love, Life, Friendship, People

“Our country needs to go forward, not to go back. I promise to build a Somalia that is in harmony with itself and is in harmony with the world.”

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (1955) President of Somalia; PDP Chairman; educator; civic, academic, and political activist

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud (2022) cited in " Somalia Elects New President, but Terrorists Hold True Power https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/world/africa/somalia-election-president.html" on The New York Times, 15 May 2022.

World, Country

“Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. With the best leaders when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say, "We have done this ourselves.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

Only the final bold section is connected to Laozi (see Ch. 17 of Tao Te Ching above). The origin of the added first section is unclear.
Misattributed

Love, People, Learning

“He who builds children palaces tears down prison walls.”

Julius Tandler (1869–1936) Austrian physician & politician

Children, Tear

“We can’t build a WE when everything is about ME.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Life

“Everyone knows revenge is a dish best served when you've had enough time to build up enough vitriol and fury.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

Revenge, Time

“Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.”

Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer

Variant: No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them because they're clever and they work hard. And 'Star Trek' is about those things.

“We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope

“It's amazing how willpower can build walls.”

Yann Martel (1963) Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi

“But borrowing strength builds weakness.”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Variant: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.
Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 19: Hamburgers,Skyline and Deadline
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Context: Once again, life had a lesson to teach me: It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy. Sure, I'd gotten tired of this tiny space, but I'd had a good home here. In the time it takes to swill two cans of beer, all had had sublimed like morning mist. My job, my whiskey, my peace and quiet, my solitude, my Sormerset Maugham, and John Ford collections-all of it trashed and worthless.

Life

“Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Color

“I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Way, Horse, Flying

“Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Love, People, Family, Communication

“If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining”

Max Brooks book The Zombie Survival Guide

Source: The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Thinking

“It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“What is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?”

Dave Eggers Zeitoun

Source: Zeitoun

Faith

“We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Sunflower

Life

“The door handle is the handshake of the building.”

Juhani Pallasmaa (1936) Finnish architect

Source: The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses

“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”

Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

Source: Collected Sketches and Lyrics

“What do you think it is?"
"It could be anything from a lawn trimmer to a bomb, for all I know."
"I would never build a lawn trimmer," Myrnin said. "What did the lawn ever do to me?”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Thinking

“You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.”

Jodi Picoult Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

Life

“Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”

Frank Herbert book Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

God

“They build their own Hells.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Hell

“So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked.
Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

God, Problem

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”

Hilari Bell (1958) American writer

Source: Crown of Earth

Way

“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

“The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Variant: Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Box

“Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.
- My Bestfriend's Girl”

Dorothy Koomson (1971) British writer

Feeling, Girl, Cry

“That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Love, Sense

“Every human activity can be put at the service of the divine and of love. We should all exercise our gift to build community.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Source: Community And Growth

Love, Exercises, Communication

“They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be…too late.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

World

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”

Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist

Books, Youth, Age, Light

“In a dream I cannot see
tangled abstract phallacy
random turmoil builds in me
i'm a addicted to chaos
-Megadeth, Addicted to Chaos”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Dreams

“In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

Personality

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”

Marvin J. Ashton (1915–1994) Apostle of the LDS Church

People, Forgiveness, Understanding, Heart

“Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Feeling

“He who builds on the people, builds on the mud.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 9; translated by W. K. Marriott

People

“People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

People, History, Thinking

“You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming."
Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-"
"Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Boy, Help

“You can use your time to build bridges or walls. The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Time, Loneliness

“I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Source: Redeeming Love

Love, Life

“You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.”

Greg Mortenson (1957) American mountaineer and humanitarian

Education, Girl, Change

“It strikes Werner just then as wondrously futile to build splendid buildings, to make music, to sing songs, to print huge books full of colorful birds in the face of the seismic, engulfing indifference of the world - what pretensions humans have!”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Books, World, Music, Color

“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Happiness

“Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.”

Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985)

World, Fools

“Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

God

“Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Light, love

“To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Silence, Time, Season

“There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker”

Aaron Allston book Betrayal

Source: Betrayal

Evil, Time

“I love him, she thought. I'm just not in love with him and also I don't love him. I've tried, I've strained to love him but I can't. I am building a life with a man I don't love, and I don't know what to do about it.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Love, Life

“Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Way, Time

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

Life, Fear, Hope

“The more you try to simplify things the more you complicate them. You create rules, build walls, push people away, lie to yourself and ignore true feelings. That is not simplifying things.”

Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now

Source: If You Could See Me Now

People, Lie, Feeling

“If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

Hate, Art, Passion, Science

“Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.”

Italo Calvino book Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

Star

“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.”

Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist

Source: Ten Things We Did

“But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil history made it necessary to build beautiful things, to mask the darker aspects.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Beauty, Way, History, Evil

“Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them. Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

Dreams

“He offered to stop the tide for me once. He offered to build me a palace at the bottom of the sea.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Sea

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

As quoted in International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations (1951) by William S. Walsh
Attributed from posthumous publications
Variant: You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.