Quotes About Construction

There are also half bricks. As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.

I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction

I guess most of 'em mean well.' 'Someday you can build a boat from meaning well and see how floats.' 'Tried that. Sank with me on it.

She wrote she heard them hammering nails all day long and that it was like living next to a coffin maker after a plague. When

The Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II (401–450) ordered that a great church be constructed in Myra, and it became known as the Church of St. Nicholas.

All objects in the universe are unique. No two things that happen by chance ever happen in exactly the same way. No two things are ever constructed or manufactured in exactly the same way. No two things wear in exactly the same way. No two things ever break in exactly the same way.

Not only has Japan developed with an impossibly small supply of cultivable land per capita, but large swathes of that land have been relentlessly gobbled up by its urban and industrial development. This trend has long been exacerbated by a cultural aversion to high-rise building. The insistence on low-rise, sadly, has done nothing to make modern Japanese construction more attractive.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stands on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed."

Auch aus Steinen die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man schöne Dinge bauen.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

recent scientific papers suggest that Egypt's great pyramids might be made not of carved blocks of stone, as long thought, but of limestone-rich concrete cast in place. [back]

We had to stop building things for a generation, just to absorb—to get saturated with—the mentality that everything's networked, smart, active. Which enables us to build things that would have been impossible before, like you couldn't build skyscrapers before steel." I nodded

The SAM sites had been bulldozed and graded then photographed by our reconnaissance aircraft. They were off-limits while under construction but could be attacked once they were completely built. To confirm that they were actually no longer under construction, the SAM site had to be observed firing a missile at you.

Es una cuestión de vigas y de columnas. Lo siento. Pero así es como pienso el mundo. Si intento quitar la viga principal se me derrumba el edificio. Y no quiero. Sobre todo porque no quiero lastimar a los que viven en él. A nadie. Este edificio que construí: ¿puede albergar una habitación secreta?

When safety is a factor, call in a contractor.

Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.

So that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

Make thee an ark of gopher wood.