Quotes About Construction

A certain amount of public works—of streets and roads and bridges and tunnels, of armories and navy yards, of buildings to house legislatures, police and fire departments—is necessary to supply essential public services.

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The fact that the human act is self-directed or built up means in no sense that the actor necessarily exercises excellence in its construction. Indeed, he may do a very poor job in constructing his act.

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

I was following my dad around from a young age. I don't know if it's genetic or just because I was surrounded by it, but I was always fascinated with building and construction and development.

I have a big brother who would make dolls' houses and playhouses and furniture out of wood. He was the one who taught me from such a young age that you could just make something. The physical act of gluing something together was really formative for me.

As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.

We were the group that built the roads by day that the Vietcong traveled at night.

I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants.

I want a tree house.

History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.

My brother was four years older and always building tree houses. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned carpentry.

For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

My brothers were tremendous shack builders. My shacks were horrible. My brothers once built a two-story shack from the ground up that was awesome!

Each of us has the ability to build

Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

In 1884, the year that the Dakota was completed, the architect Richard Morris Hunt had put the finishing touches on a huge new building on Park Row to house Whitelaw Reid's New York Tribune. The Tribune tower soared an unprecedented eleven stories into the sky and was topped by a tall campanile, but it was not to be New York's tallest building for long. A year later Bradford Lee Gilbert designed the Tower Building, to be erected at 50 Broadway.

Walls came down and doorways were created as the architect tried to fit individual apartments together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In

How does the sequence of bases on the DNA direct the construction of protein molecules?

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.