Floor Plastered Building

Famous quotes containing the words floor, plastered and/or building:

    ““Trams and dusty trees.
    Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew
    Undid me. By Richmond I raised my knees
    Supine on the floor of a narrow canoe.””
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “When she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with bitumen and pitch; she put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 2:3.

    “Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.”
    —Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)