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Quotes About Construction

I took after my father who was a bricklayer and used to build everything step by step, brick by brick.
~ Javier Zanetti
Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.
~ Isabella Bird
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
~ John Ruskin
I like to build things. I like to do things.
~ Walter Chrysler
If I wasn't doing music, I might have been a builder.
~ Tricky
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
~ Pat Gillick
I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.
~ Neri Oxman
I just like building stuff.
~ John Schnatter
My buildings are all on budget.
~ Frank Gehry
I own buildings. I'm a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.
~ Donald Trump
We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.
~ Elizabeth Diller
If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
~ Adam Carolla
Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it.
~ Roger Maris
To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.
~ Jean Piaget
Success in the revolution and construction depends on how a party, the General Staff of the revolution, is built and on how its leadership role is enhanced.
~ Kim Jong-un
Trump is a real estate guy who sucks up to power to get buildings built.
~ Franklin Foer
My parents came from very humble families. My grandfather had a construction business coming from farmland, and my grandmother could never read or write. We were very spoiled. We had a nice house - and then, all of a sudden, we had nothing.
~ Maria Cornejo
I once called construction companies to bid on an addition to the school library so that there would suddenly be people outside, measuring the building. 'Who authorized this?' the principal would ask. The answer: 'Howie Mandel.'
~ Howie Mandel
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.
~ Vitruvius
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.
~ Ali Smith
There were times when I'd go to lawyer auditions, and everyone's in a suit, and I'm covered in concrete and paint.
~ Jake McLaughlin
I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.
~ Roger Ailes
The great Comrade Kim Jong Il provided energetic guidance to defend and honour Comrade Kim Il Sung's idea of and exploits in socialist rural construction and make UAWK organizations creditably perform their duties as organizations for ideological education.
~ Kim Jong-un
y allí donde existía una morada estable se presenta una construcción imaginaria, forma que depende sólo del pensamiento —como erigida toda y solamente en la imaginación.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke