Top 100 Quotes About Cement
#1. I took acres of fertile ignorance up to that place. And they started to pour preconceptions all over it. Like forty tons of cement. No thanks. I got out before it hardened. I did a year, passed
William McIlvanney
#2. It's your money or you'll be wearing cement shoes - Peppermint Patty
Charles M. Schulz
#3. The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys.
Charles Caleb Colton
#4. I think they look like little pieces of green confetti decorating the grey cement walk and that seems all wrong.
Autumn Doughton
#5. I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.
Dana Gould
#6. For some, religion is the cement that seals shut their door on the world
Carol Shields
#7. I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.
Sylvia Plath
#8. This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months.
Canvass White
#9. I survived
A dreadful accident
In the car crash of the century
My shattered hopes
Collapsed on cold cement
But in the back of the ambulance
I'd never felt so content.
Owl City
#10. Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your head, then have somebody strap two sacks of cement across your shoulders and you will know what a space suit feels like under one gravity.
Robert A. Heinlein
#11. The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.
Pawan Mishra
#12. If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.
Jerry Coleman
#13. People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#14. There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."
Dave Barry
#15. There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.
Ronald Reagan
#16. The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.
Thomas Jefferson
#17. A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
Dan Gilroy
#18. Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.
Clifford Stoll
#19. Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
John Piper
#20. Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
Harry Stack Sullivan
#21. You better ignore this.
You better staple your eyes shut
and put pot-lids over your ears
and pinch your nose with vice grips
and cement your mouth shut
with real cement and while
you're at it or in it or whatever
cut off your hands for good measure
B.J. Ward
#22. Marriages had different meanings back then than they do now, they were used to cement agreements between families, business deals and things like that. The idea of marriages being arranged for love is some sort of modern idea, really.
Jared Harris
#23. When a heart breaks a substance spills out like cement and pours through the bloodstream, hardening everything. In time, I know my heart will mend and the rock inside will crack and crumble away. But for now I'm as solid as a column. And alone I stand.
Sarah Noffke
#24. Lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.
Paul Farmer
#25. Some species there be of middle natures, that is, of bird and beast, as batts; yet are their parts so set together, that we cannot define the beginning or end of either, there being a commixtion of both, rather than adaptation or cement of the one unto the other.Brown'sVulgar Errours,b. iii. c. ii.
Samuel Johnson
#26. Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.
Thomas Pynchon
#27. A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
Paul Muni
#28. What do you think you're doing?" ... "What does it look like, Blake? I'm obviously having wild sex on a cement bench with my best friend's boyfriend fifteen feet from a yard full of people.
Talia Vance
#29. The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.
Thomas Jefferson
#30. Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
Mary Baker Eddy
#31. sticks and stones might break your bones, but cement pays homage to tradition.
Estelle Getty
#32. On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.
Alex Shakar
#33. Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.
Cornel West
#34. To help cement the friendship between Japan and Disney, Emperor Hirohito personally presented to Roy O. Disney, for the dedication of the Magic Kingdom, a stone Japanese lantern known as a Toro to light the way to success and happiness.
Jim Korkis
#35. But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons
Dave Eggers
#36. you were attacked by cement monkeys?
Tom Cook
#37. When producing low-heat Portland cement the percentage of C2S is increased and that of C3S and C3A is decreased. This type of cement is of particular use in construction of dams, massive foundation, etc. to reduce the production of heat.
P.C. Varghese
#38. If you run into a brick wall, don't become discouraged. A brick wall is only held together by cement, but you are held together by God. The right tool and the use of force can tear down its wall, while you are still standing.
Bianca McCormick-Johnson
#39. FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values.
David R. Wommack
#40. The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.
Drake
#41. The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.
Lord Chesterfield
#42. I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all.
P.G. Wodehouse
#43. To cement my point, Dire Straits came on and after Perry proclaimed her sudden (and surprising) love for the band, the douchefucker stood up and asked her to dance like he was a Cajun Rhett Butler.
Karina Halle
#44. If you think a story can be like a kind of cement, the sloppy kind that you put between bricks, the kind that looks like cake frosting before it dries hard, then maybe I thought it would be possible to use what Toby had to hold Finn together, to keep him here with me a little bit longer.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#45. In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.
Peter Hedges
#46. Otherwise it was barren as a desert, just long dunes of brick and cement and slate and asphalt.
Peter Dickinson
#47. If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor.
Jen Lancaster
#48. A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.
George Iles
#49. The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#50. Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need to cement this federal commitment to Alaskans so the state has the assurance that money vital for providing Medicaid health care will not just dry up and disappear.
Lisa Murkowski
#51. Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts.
Boethius
#52. Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.
Robertson Davies
#53. I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#54. Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow Wilson
#55. Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it.
Walter F. Mondale
#56. If grass can grow through cement, love can find you every time.
Cher
#57. Cairo was, and remains, an ugly, cement-colored, park-free city, dotted with a few bewildering, mind-expanding splendors that make the whole place manic and magical. There was always noise, dirt, and exhaust, the honking of horns and the screeching of brakes. My
Richard Engel
#58. The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set.
Robert Wolgemuth
#59. Love's not a decision, son. It hits a man betwixt the eyes, and there's no decidin' to it. Right or wrong, doubts or no doubts, he's standin' knee deep in cement that's about to set."
~Harv Coulter
Catherine Anderson
#60. The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience.
R. G. LeTourneau
#61. Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement.
Ken Norton
#62. Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.
Bud Wilkinson
#63. A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.
Anna Quindlen
#64. Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.
Arundhati Roy
#65. The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
Robert Blair
#67. Like flowers blooming through cement,
we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.
Gina Greenlee
#68. His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift.
But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.
Ken Kesey
#69. The church I mentioned will be established, but its foundation, in order to be truly solid, will be dug in flesh, its walls made from the cement of renunciation, tears, agony, anguish, every conceivable form of death.
Jose Saramago
#70. The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
Le Corbusier
#71. A nurse and a social worker took fifteen minutes out of their shitty thankless job in the roughest corner of town, sat on a couple of milk crates drinking coffee, flopped their real selves out of the cement and both liked what they saw.
Laura Buzo
#72. I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading
anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it
kept the heart alive.
Charles Bukowski
#73. Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation. Stand back. There's liable to be crackin' cement and flying steel. Get the women and kids someplace safe. Stand back ...
Ken Kesey
#74. They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles; Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bungee jumping.
Neal Stephenson
#75. Out in this profane city,
sometimes sidewalks
seem the only cement that connects us,
pressed by the sacred strangers
we will never touch.
B.J. Ward
#76. She was not curvy or big-boned; she was fat, it was the only word that felt true. And she had ignored, too, the cement in her soul.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#78. Persevere. There is one dandelion that grows from the crack in the cement. Let that one dandelion be YOU.
Margaret Aranda
#79. What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don't yet have?
Priscilla Shirer
#80. Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.
Sarah Addison Allen
#81. She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks ... She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby.
Richard Brautigan
#83. Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us.
Alex Tan
#84. The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless.
Jewel
#85. He wondered if the German girl ever knew that someone had loved her so much that he painted her twice on the cold cement wall of a machine-gun pillbox.
Jess Walter
#86. Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#87. Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.
Fran Lebowitz
#88. In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No ... right up to your nose ... that's much quieter.
Edward Albee
#89. All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.
Mario Bunge
#90. The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle ... If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.
Canvass White
#91. Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice.
Pope John Paul II
#92. A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
Olivia Wilde
#93. I once had a mind of quicksand,
That dragged ideas into its depths,
Inhaling specks of sunlight,
Every time I drew a breath,
But the world thought me a hazard,
When every word I spoke, I meant,
So around me they put caution tape,
And filled me with cement.
Erin Hanson
#95. These were the ridiculous tales of being twenty-two and twenty-five, of being in that happy, malleable phase of postcollege life before everything set in the gray cement of adulthood.
Maya Lang
#96. What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
Allen Ginsberg
#97. The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.
Lee Iacocca
#98. There's nothing worse than a label to cement people's loyalties.
Greg Egan
#99. The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
William Hazlitt
#100. Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.
Stanley Milgram
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