W. E. B. Du Bois

School houses do not teach themselves - piles of brick and mortar and machinery do not send out men. It is the trained, living human soul, cultivated and strengthened by long study and thought, that breathes the real breath of life into boys and girls and makes them human, whether they be black or white, Greek, Russian or American.

American Writer

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further.

Indonesian Economist

David Steward

Tom Wall has the unique ability to extract, cultivate and realize a vision that goes far beyond simple bricks and mortar. He has an amazing appreciation of art and beauty and his designs begin with listening to his clients.

American Businessman

Josh Blue

I always say, my set is like building a brick wall that all the jokes are the bricks but the improv is the mortar. You piece it all together and have a certain flow to it.

Stephen Cohen

The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant.

American Educator

David McCallum

I think your life is governed not by the bricks or mortar around you, it's governed by who holds your hand and who spits in your eye.

Scottish Actor

Eric Bogosian

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

American Actor

Natalie Massenet

Even if I am predisposed to shop online, I see bricks and mortar as part of marketing.

American Businesswoman

John Oates

The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer.

American Musician

Amanda Lindhout

I'm not afraid of IED's, bullets, mortars.

Canadian Journalist

Mortar is often used in construction and civil engineering conversations.

Construction Context

Besides its literal meaning, 'mortar' can imply the basis or support that holds things together.

Literal and Figurative

Mortar degrades over time, so it's often discussed in the context of repairs.

Building Maintenance

Mortar is frequently mentioned in cooking to describe blending or grinding ingredients.

Culinary Use

The mortar and pestle is known as a traditional kitchen tool across various cultures.

Traditional Tool

In military terms, a mortar is a weapon, so the context is usually combat-related.

Military Equipment

The word 'mortar' can evoke images of war or action scenes, often found in movies or news.

Visual Imagery

'Mortar' might appear in idioms or metaphors related to its explosive impact in war.

Idiomatic Expressions

 where you're shooting machine guns and firing mortars. There's not a lot of places you can put those skills in the civilian world. Emotionally, I struggled to find meaning. In the military, everything has meaning. Everything you do is either steeped in tradition or has a practical purpose. You can't smoke in the field

My journey from Marine...

 salsa comes from Mexico which raises the question of why'd that mortar is even there because the idea of a ward of a course is you draw the line here everything inside of this space is the same everything outside of that space is different but why is it that the number

The delicious degrees of...

 And the key ingredients are policy, education and training, systems, bricks and mortar. We have tons of input for designers of all stripes to work with. We know, for example, from research what's most important to people who are closer to

What really matters at...

 lays the bricks in a herringbone pattern which spiraled to the top of the dome with vertical bricks acting his bookends to hold the others in place they laid about one roll a week giving the mortar time to cure at this rate the dome grew

How an Amateur Built the...

 terraces, and infrastructure using stone and without the help of wheels or tools made of steel or iron. One particularly notable aspect of their construction is foregoing the use of mortar, a material often used to bind stones together.

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 sound to him a sound and a smell and these mortar - when it was dropping and then the concussion I was one of the last in my platoon that actually see combat and that day started with a mission to do humanitarian aid and we started

Photos from the Front...

 that recycled all the amorphous material of the quarry, just supported by gravity -- no mortar and no ties. And once built and tested, moving it to the final site in the city center to unite it with the rest of the building

Stunning buildings made...

 This makes the hydrophobic effect disappear, and gives the molecules room to move around. The overall effect is like removing all of the nails and mortar from a house and then hitting it with an earthquake.

Which is better: Soap or...

 And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks. Now, when you put all of this together,

Margaret Heffernan: Why...

 mortar supports them as they dance across it sometimes they actually swim

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