BUILDING in Classic Quotes

1  Those who don't build must burn.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

2  A time to break down, and a time to build up.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

3  You can't build a house without nails and wood.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

4  It carried its silence with it, so you could feel the silence building up a pressure behind you all across town.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

5  He saw her in her hotel room somewhere now in the half second remaining with the bombs a yard, a foot, an inch from her building.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

6  And some day we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

7  You firemen provide a circus now and then at which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze, but it's a small sideshow indeed, and hardly necessary to keep things in line.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

8  She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander