Quotes About Construction

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

I spent a long time learning how to construct clothes, which is important to do before you can deconstruct them.

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

When the ancient Egyptians finished building the pyramids, they had built the pyramids.

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now.

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.

There are so many new skyscrapers being built in our city of rain, I wonder if everybody's spirit animal is now the construction crane.

I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

Most of the time, I played by myself, with my toys. I liked the more complex toys, especially blocks and Lincoln Logs. I still remember the taste of Lincoln Logs.

You'll like it less when you hear what they've been building. It's a big raised platform at the end of the square about two metres above the ground, with steps running up to it.' 'Like a stage?' Erak suggested. 'Maybe they're going to put on a play.' 'Or an execution,' Horace said.

It was made from bark slabs and wattle and daub

The problem with castles, Halt thought as he continued upward, was that they were full of stairs. If someone could only design a castle that was all on one level, it would save a lot of effort.

Rome was not built in one day.

In other words, race is a social construction, and how groups are defined varies over time and place.

I'm a handy-challenged, bona fide egghead who wouldn't know a drill bit from a sledgehammer." Now We Know Why It's Called a Punch List due for publication in 2019

It's like the future is a building you put up on the foundations of the past.

The dodecagon is also made from six squares and six equilateral triangles fitted around a hexagon

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.