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  • Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep the Dead down Three and Five became stone and mortar Four sees all in frozen water.

    Hands   Land   Two  
    Garth Nix (2014). “Sabriel”, p.125, Hot Key Books
  • When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.

    Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.
  • I carry my own church about under my own hat," said I. "Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4552, Delphi Classics
  • Martin Luther King's legacy is never to be measured by bricks and mortar, but rather by the kind of lives that we live, and the kind of love and service that we render.

    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if only for a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again.

    Art   Sex   Wall  
    Rabih Alameddine (2014). “An Unnecessary Woman”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, its governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

  • If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed.

    War   Distance   Gun  
  • American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.

  • Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom

    Blood   Kingdoms   Mortar  
  • It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.

    Art   Fall   Cracks  
  • All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.

    Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.47, Simon and Schuster
  • He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

    Hate   Heart   Race  
    Moby Dick ch. 41 (1851)
  • The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.

  • I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.

    Peace   War   Believe  
    Martin Luther King, Jr.'s acceptance speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.
  • Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

  • Composing is like driving down a foggy road.

    "The Classical Music Experience: Discover the Music of the World's Greatest Composers". Book by Julius H. Jacobson (p.341), 2008.
  • The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.

    Children   Real   War  
  • There are forces more powerful and pervasive than the apparatus of war. You may chain a man, but you cannot chain his mind. You may enslave him, but you will not conquer his spirit. In every decade since the war Soviet leaders have been reminded that their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day will come when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks; the mortar crumbles; one day, liberty will dawn on the other side of the wall.

    Wall   Powerful   War  
  • Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

    Source: www.researchgate.net
  • Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

    War   Opponents   Chess  
  • We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

  • The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

    Karl Marx, Terrell Carver (1996). “Marx: Later Political Writings”, p.202, Cambridge University Press
  • All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

    Wall   Support   Decay  
  • Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.

    Source: www.marieclaire.com
  • One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call "the other digital divide."

    Source: www.researchgate.net
  • When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.

    War   School   Community  
    Garrison Keillor (2004). “Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America”, p.85, Penguin
  • It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".

    Mother   Father   Parent  
    Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.
  • I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

    "Why Her And Not Me? Robert Draper on Amanda Lindhout's Kidnapping" Robert Draperby, www.elle.com. September 4, 2013.
  • To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

    Hands   Attendance   Use  
  • Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of the room had adapted itself to this wound, accepting the habits of weather, evening stars, the sound of birds.

    Stars   Wall   Doors  
    Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.12, A&C Black
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