Basic Building Block Quotes

#1. Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

Hank Hanegraaff

#2. The basic building block of peace and security for all peoples is economic and social security, anchored in sustainable development. It is a key to all problems. Why? Because it allows us to address all the great issues-poverty, climate, environment and political stability-as parts of the whole.

Ban Ki-moon

#3. Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?

Quentin Crisp

#4. The basic building block of Evernote is a "note." It can be text, a photo, a snapshot from the web, an e-mail, a chart or graph, anything.

Troy Mcnally

#5. There are many different forms of family and there is in fact NO 'the' family.

The basic building block of any close relationship - and thus any family - is LOVE.

Christina Engela

#6. Having done an impressive job of demolishing the basic societal building block of the family, the ambitious liberal is now moving on to demolishing the basic building block of the sexes.

Mark Steyn

#7. Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Frank Zappa

#8. The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

Dante Alighieri

#9. Wise men hear and see as little children do.

Laozi

#10. The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all else passes away as a wind passes away.

Violette Nakhjavani

#11. In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

Tim Bishop

#12. And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven.

Bryce Courtenay

#13. Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

Arabella Weir

#14. With a painting, you're taking basic building blocks and making something that's more complex than what you started with. It is a synthetic process. A photograph does the opposite: It takes the world, and puts an order on it, simplifies it.

Stephen Shore

#15. What is happening in Detroit is not good so I don't even want to be a part of that, but there is something on the other side that I may want to be a part of so I don't know yet.

Kwame Kilpatrick

#16. The national State divides its inhabitants into three classes: State citizens, State subjects, and foreigners. It must be held in greater honour to be a citizen of this Reich even if only a crossing-sweeper, than to be a king in a foreign State.

Adolf Hitler

#17. I learned that every tree fights for sunlight in the canopy, but this happens so slowly that the combat looks like peace.

J.M. McDermott

#18. I have a dog named Steve that lives at the studio.

Drake Bell

#19. We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.

Ira Glass

#20. They say that Madison Avenue will only pay high dollars in advertising if they get the 18-35 age range.

Sharon Gless

#21. Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.

Walter De La Mare