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We've found 34 quotes for 'jerry-built' (0.102 seconds):



"Never be afraid to try something new remember amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic." »Unknown 
"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." »Harry S Truman 
"I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts 
"Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." »Jorge Luis Borges 
"I have built my organization upon fear." »Al Capone 
"You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more." »Oprah Winfrey 
"It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long." »Homer 
"Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough." »Unknown 
"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." »William Shedd 
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." »Grace Murray Hopper 
"Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." »Francis Bacon 
"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
"Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt." »William Cowper 
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." »George Bernard Shaw 
"While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones." »Rabindranath Tagore 
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." »Roosevelt, Eleanor 
"Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind." »Wilfred Wilson Gibson 
"Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport." »Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe 
"God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them." »Theodore Ledyard Cuyler 
"I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)" »Dwight D Eisenhower 
"A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth." »Lao Tzu 
"If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction." »Arthur Koestler 
"My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people." »Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there." »Eric Hoffer 
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." »Jalal ud-Din Rumi 
"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice." »Max Nordau 
"Without doubt the greatest injury was done by basing morals on myth, for sooner or later myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built." »Herbert Samuel 
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies." »John Donne 
"There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity." »Buck Rodgers 
"Today's family is built like a pyramid with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing." »Lawrence Kubie 
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