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Cement doesn't give as much as snow. -- Shaun White
I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand. -- Rodney Dangerfield
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. -- Robert Herrick
Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart. -- Yasser Arafat
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! -- John Piper
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. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together. -- Bud Wilkinson
The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American. -- Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together. -- Woodrow Wilson
Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . . -- Vincent de Paul
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. -- Cher
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy. -- Le Corbusier
Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward. -- Dmitri Shostakovich
In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony. -- Eva Burrows
A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals. -- Ronnie Corbett
The first year of marriage is like wet cement - the impressions made in it are much harder to change once it has set. -- Robert Wolgemuth
lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights. -- Paul Farmer
Charity is the cement that unites communities to God and individuals to each other so that he who contributes to the union of hearts in a community binds it indissolubly to God. -- St. Vincent
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
Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it. -- Walter F. Mondale
I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy. -- Siri Hustvedt
The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all. -- P. G. Wodehouse
I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it kept the heart alive. -- Charles Bukowski
I think by take eight you're kind of going, "Oh, wow, I don't know if I want to fall entirely off the roof again." That stuff is tough, and I'm also not 21 anymore. I just don't like cement. Cement isn't hilarious any more. -- Ryan Reynolds
They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time. -- Ann Romney
Sweat makes good friendship cement. -- Tyne Daly
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society. -- Robert Blair
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs. -- Ian Frazier
Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement. -- Ken Norton
They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it. -- Dick Dale
It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable. -- Jim Leach
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. -- Harry Stack Sullivan
May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production. -- Mwai Kibaki
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life. -- Mary Baker Eddy
I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet. -- Adam DeVine
When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!' -- Don Rickles
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. -- Paul Muni
If forced to choose between a book and a Kindle, I'd opt for the comfort and ease of bound pages. I mean, I can't break a book if I drop it on a cement floor. -- Jen Lancaster
I wish I could avoid the people who have threatened me. My favorite threat is that I will be thrown in the River Miljacka, which is at most knee-deep, with my feet bound in cement. -- Aleksandar Hemon
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. -- Thomas Friedman
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. -- Olivia Wilde
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. -- Jerry Lewis
My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well. -- John Barrasso
I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out. -- Robert Redford
you were attacked by cement monkeys? -- Tom Cook
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Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement! -- Woody Allen
The first year of marriage is like wet cement -- Robert Wolgemuth
Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement -- Oliver Sacks
Some people feel like you have to cement your love. -- Sarah Michelle Gellar
Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together. -- Robertson Davies
In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement. -- Charles James
I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote. -- Louise Wilson
A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. -- Anna Quindlen
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies. -- John Dryden
Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper. -- Clifford Stoll
The pebbles of knowledge must be bonded together by the cement of experience. -- R. G. LeTourneau
Love is a great glue, but there is no cement like mutual hate. -- Lois Wyse
Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind. -- William Penn
A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown. -- Dan Gilroy
Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement. -- Paul McCartney
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice. -- Pope John Paul II
Some wedges are great but you can look like your feet are encased in cement. -- Victoria Beckham
On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit. -- Alex Shakar
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
FAMILY. The ties that bind. The cement that builds character, strength of purpose, mutual respect, values. -- David R. Wommack
The moral cement of all society is virtue; it unites and preserves, while vice separates and destroys. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics. -- Stephen Covey
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. -- William Hazlitt
With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard -- Nicolas Cage
what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination -- Allen Ginsberg
I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. -- Anna Quindlen
Our children are the cement of life, its up to us to make the foundation of the future! -- Steph Cook
If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement. -- Jerry Coleman
The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it. -- Drake
Come, let us build bridges of love with each other with the cement of kindness and pillars of trust. -- Debasish Mridha
The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them. -- Lord Chesterfield
There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement. -- Groucho Marx
Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body. -- George Berkeley
The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes. -- Pawan Mishra
I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public. -- Kareena Kapoor Khan
Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse. -- Sarah Addison Allen
It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement. -- Kristin Hannah
Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense. -- Cornel West
Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority. -- Stanley Milgram
Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt. -- Florence King
I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers. -- Dana Gould
Imagining [The Wizard of Oz] without Judy Garland is a bit like dancing on wet cement: you can do it, but why would you want to? -- Pauline Kael
A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use. -- George Iles
There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane." -- Dave Barry
All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society. -- Mario Bunge
Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind. -- Alexander McCall Smith
Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island. -- Albert Camus
Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many. -- Arundhati Roy
The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis. -- Thomas Jefferson
Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned. -- Fran Lebowitz
Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement. -- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas often, in reality, the force ascribed to it. -- David Hume
The temple of truth is built indeed of stones of crystal, but, inasmuch as men have been concerned in rearing it, it has been consolidated by a cement composed of baser materials. -- Charles Caleb Colton
What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don't yet have? -- Priscilla Shirer
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees. -- Tom Robbins
The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom, equality and fraternity. Our task is endless. -- Jewel
The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine. -- Lee Iacocca
This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does not become perfectly hard within one or two months. -- Canvass White
I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer! -- David Crosby
She wore a loose bathrobe that covered up a body that would have won first prize in a beauty contest for cement blocks.....She had a voice that made pearl harbour sound like a lullaby. -- Richard Brautigan
You have those walls up all around you...Come a day you gonna want to tear them down brick by brick and gonna find that the cement is all hard. What you gonna do then? -- Jacqueline Woodson
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
Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons -- Dave Eggers

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