Quotes About Capitol Building

#1. From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.

Gary Ackerman

#2. Walking through the Capitol Building gives you a sense of how it all began here. It was reassuring to see how restrained it was. It was very humble in a way.

Greg Lake

#3. A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

Jane Swisshelm

#4. Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.

Mercer Reynolds

#5. You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back there, every time you see the national monument, you'll say 'I met God on the National Mall.'

Luis Palau

#6. If the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.

Douglas Wilson

#7. Shame is deeply rooted in identity. And the "self-ideal" we create for ourselves can often incorporate a lot of expectations that simply aren't included in God's ideal for us.

Matt Chandler

#8. As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places

Bart Giamatti

#9. All singers must be crazy. But we're a nice family of crazy people

Joan Sutherland

#10. One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.

Henri Poincare

#11. Our freedom through Christ means we are all free to love one another and to serve one another.

Chris Vonada

#12. Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood right in those same rooms to make the landmark decisions.

Kevin Yoder

#13. I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

Antony Beevor

#14. Grab life by the tail and hold on tight. It's a grand adventure.

Kate Perry

#15. I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone.

Nathan East

#16. Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.

Suzanne Collins

#17. When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights Watch. It's going to be pornography, 'Sex and the City,' or maybe funny videos of cats.

Evgeny Morozov

#18. Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.

Luis Gutierrez

#19. I learned the long way about love, tried every house on the block before I got it right. Now, finally, I love alone.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#20. But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe ... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence.

Francis Bacon

#21. I have these big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.

Sandra Bullock

#22. I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important major public building.

Cesar Pelli