Precast Walling Quotes & Sayings

If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have been regarded as subhuman by their cruel captors, but through music, they were proud and dignified. — Henry Rollins

In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,
that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations. — Edmund Burke

A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims
these are lucky eventualites but they aren't love stories. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name.
We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.
And we certainly wouldn't write about it. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Many teachers are concerned about the amount of material they must cover in a course. One cynic suggested a formula: since, he said, students on the average remember only about 40% of what you tell them, the thing to do is to cram into each course 250% of what you hope will stick. — Paul Halmos

Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast, select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not. At the same time, however, take care that thou dost not, through being so pleased with them, accustom thyself to overvalue them, so as to be disturbed if ever thou shouldst not have them. — Marcus Aurelius

Earth would stand out as strange and perturbed, with something in the air that geology and chemistry alone could not explain, with some huge ongoing, active chemical disturbance. — David Grinspoon

"Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish." — Joseph-Louis Lagrange

The greatest and most important thing in the world is founded on weakness. This is a remarkably sure foundation, for nothing is surer than that the people will be weak. — Blaise Pascal

Exactitude is the lowest form of pictorial gratification. — S.I. Hayakawa

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own. — Benjamin Franklin

Fortune favors the bold. — Joseph Pignataro

I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course. — Jerry O'Connell

Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness. — Lee Strobel

Work like a slave; order like a king; create like a god. — Constantin Brancusi

There are two kinds of family. There's the family of your flesh, and the one of your heart. One builds character, the other rewards it. — Sheila Roberts