Quotes About Construction

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

It isn't always easy to stay within budget when committing to a renovation, but one place you can cut costs is on the demolition.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy - in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

I don't tackle a whole lot of electrical, but I could build you an entire house. I worked as a professional framer, as a tile-setter, did a lot of my own plumbing; I taught myself.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

For me, I've always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who built the railroad.

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

President Trump was able to build 455 miles of wall by the time he left office, and had funds allocated for further construction. A secure southern border was no longer simply a dream, it was a tangible reality.

Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it out loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.

It is only when we forget the ideas behind building something wonderful that we can actually do the building that makes things wonderful.

Habitability is the characteristic of source code that enables programmers, coders, bug-fixers, and people coming to the code later in its life to understand its construction and intentions and to change it comfortably and confidently.

Raising the subject of East Tremont with Commissioner Moses, I asked him the most innocuous question I could think of: Wasn't it more difficult to build an expressway in the city rather than a parkway in the country? He waved his hand dismissively: "Oh, no, no, no," he said. "There are more people in the way—that's all. There's very little real hardship in the thing. There's a little discomfort, and even that is greatly exaggerated.

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

You cannot build a complete memory with a single memory tool any more than you can build a complete building with a single carpentry tool.

Henry Ford was afraid that the amount of dirt that was being removed to make room for the foundation of the Empire State Building was so great that it would have a disastrous effect on the rotation of the Earth. Not a genius.

You know a constitution is kind of like a blueprint," Charlotte said thoughtfully. "Getting a real working government out of it is the true act of construction.

God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

Turns out there's a reason smoking is not allowed on construction sites.

Don't remove stones from foundation to build walls and decorate windows

We might like to think of ourselves as autonomous beings who get to decide who we are going to be, but we are likely much more malleable than we think. We are often defined by the structure that keeps us captive. In some ways our desires are so socially constructed that they can't rightfully be called our own.