Quotation Explorer - 'Cement'

I once had a mind of quicksand,That dragged ideas into its depths,Inhaling specks of sunlight,Every time I drew a breath,But the world thought me a hazard,When every word I spoke, I meant,So around me they put caution tape,And filled me with cement. - Erin Hanson
Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer. - Charles Grandison Finney
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. - Robert Herrick
The faithless are surprised, that the faithful put no faith in them; the infidels are astounded that the wise do not put trust in them. After all we don't entrust cement to grow abundant foliage. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Wherever we go we do harm, forgivingourselves as wheels do cement for wearingeach other out. We set this houseon fire, forgetting that we live within.(from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker) - Jim Harrison
Your dreams are like the cement. If you water it with actions, it becomes a hard concrete mass. But if you leave it exposed and unwatered, the air will easily blow it away! - Israelmore Ayivor
Come, let us build bridges of love with each other with the cement of kindness and pillars of trust. - Debasish Mridha
In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter. - Edward Albee
FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values. - David R. Wommack
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. - Cher
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! God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. - John Piper
In the future, violence would clearly become a valuable form of social cement. - J.G. Ballard
Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty is like watching that fish die right there on the cement in front of you. - C. JoyBell C.
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. - Haim Ginott
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. - Anna Quindlen
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