Old Buildings Quotes

We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

The hidden village was something we found when we went to research in China we climbed a mountain in the Sichuan province where the panda sanctuary is based, and we climbed to this beautiful, mist-covered, almost primordial place and when we turned these corners these moss covered old buildings would come into view, revealing themselves and it was so beautiful and so unlike anything we'd seen that we literally took those moments and put them into the film [Kung Fu Panda 3].

New ideas must use old buildings

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not the sewing on a patch of holiness; but, with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles and practice.

I wanted to preserve the old buildings, not to destroy them and build something new.

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect, it wasn't necessarily even pretty, but it was alive. The old buildings smiled, while our new buildings are faceless. The old buildings sang, while the buildings of our age have no music in them.

New ideas often need old buildings.

In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

You see all these old buildings [in Rio] going down or catching fire overnight, and it is so sad. I am very connected with these buildings because they are our history. It is the only one that we have.

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.