Cement Quotes

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. (Robert Herrick (poet))
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetener of life! and solder of society! View quote
Robert Blair
Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells. View quote
Thomas Friedman
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies. View quote
John Dryden
Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement! View quote
Woody Allen
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements. View quote
Lin Yutang
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. View quote
Yasser Arafat
In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride. View quote
Anne Brontë
For the social ecologist language is not "communication." It is not just "message." It is substance. It is the cement that holds humanity together. It creates community and communication.... Social ecologists need not be "great" writers; but they have to be respectful writers, caring writers. (Peter Drucker)
A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet. View quote
Olivia Wilde
There is evil! It's actual, like cement. I can't believe it. I can't stand it. Evil is not a view... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement! View quote
John Piper
From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems. View quote
Jerry Lewis
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. View quote
Harry Stack Sullivan
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. View quote
Cornelia Otis Skinner
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning. View quote
Paul Muni
Sweat makes good friendship cement. View quote
Tyne Daly
The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Ideologies capable of influencing and winning the acceptance of great masses of people are an indispensable verbal cement holding the fabric of any given type of society together. (James Burnham)
They must at the same time be so expressed as to be capable of appealing to the sentiments of the masses. An ideology embodying the interests of a given ruling class would not be of the slightest use as social cement if it openly expressed its function of keeping the ruling class in power over the rest of society. The ideology must ostensibly speak in the name of 'humanity', 'the people', the race', 'the future', 'God', 'destiny', and so on. View quote
James Burnham
You Westerners simply don't understand the philosophy behind my power. The Iranians think of their sovereign as a father. What you call 'my celebration' was to them the celebration of Iran's father. The monarchy is the cement of our unity. In celebrating our twenty-five hundreth anniversary, all I was doing was celebrating the anniversary of my country, of which I am the father. Now, if to you, a father is inevitably a dictator, that is your problem, not mine. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
You have made The cement of your churches out of tears And ashes, and the fabric will not stand. View quote
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Every culture has a shared pattern of thinking. It is the cement that holds a culture together, gives it unity. A culture's characteristic way of thinking is imbedded in its concept of the nature of reality, its world view. View quote
Russell L. Ackoff