We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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designarchitecturedesignSource: Speech in the House of Commons, 28 October 1943 (Hansard), on rebuilding the bombed Commons Chamber
Genuine and well documented — one of the Churchill quotations that actually survives checking. The recorded wording is 'We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.' The corpus text is the common paraphrase; consider restoring the Hansard wording.