Girder Quotes

#1. The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

Joyce Cary

#2. The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.

Jared Diamond

#3. I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

Margaret Halsey

#4. Dagny," he said, looking at the city as it moved past their taxi window, "think of the first man who thought of making a steel girder. He knew what he saw, what he thought and what he wanted. He did not say, 'It seems to me,' and he did not take orders from those who say, 'In my opinion.

Ayn Rand

#5. She was so cool, as she knew, ankles crossed
at the puckered hem of granite
gray sweatpants, and she also knew
I was watching from the open door
of the B train - watching her pose
in apparent comfort at the girder of this city thoroughfare.

Kristen Henderson

#6. Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!

Rudyard Kipling

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

Charles Reznikoff

#8. I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. Tough guys toughen up when faced with adversity. So he flexes his gag reflex and steps inside.

Bradley Sands

#10. When we meet beautiful people, what we see on the outside doesn't always reflect what's on the inside

Lori Hatcher

#11. At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

Robert T. Bakker

#12. If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.

Frederick Lenz

#13. Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.

Tanya Huff

#14. When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

S.M. Stevens