Quotes About Roman Aqueducts

#1. Typically, highway bridges have about 50 years. But over in England, they have iron bridges approaching 250 years. In France, there are Roman aqueducts that are approaching 2,000 years old. So a bridge can last a very long time if it's built properly in the first place and then maintained properly.

Henry Petroski

#2. I don't like second place; I'm out there trying to win everything.

Tony Gonzalez

#3. When you have worked with them, when you have lived with them, you do not have to wonder how they feel, because you feel it yourself.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#4. Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

Jesse Helms

#5. Emptiness itself can birth the fullness of grace beacuse in the emptiness we have the opportunity to turn to God, ...

Ann Voskamp

#6. Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

Cornelia Funke

#7. we're reduced to our bones, to two teenagers grumbling in a cage. I

Victoria Aveyard

#8. Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.

Robert Kiyosaki

#9. If you want to learn a thing, read that. If you want to know a thing, write that; if you want to master a thing, teach that.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#10. If you had to hide me amidst your thoughts, where would you hide me ? Promise me you would put me somewhere beautiful, where i can hide quietly forever ?

Srividya Srinivasan

#11. I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Walt Whitman

#12. ..he says, but that's wizard's talk, making things seem great by great words.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

Dacia Maraini