Quotes About Construction

Ezio Longo, inmigrante de primera generación en el país, arquitecto sin título y constructor de oficio, quien se había propuesto fundar un imperio sobre cemento y acero y a los treinta y cinco años ya lo tenía casi consolidado

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.

We are committed to making construction zones as safe as we possibly can for motorists and those working on the job.

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

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

We've reached an age that when construction workers stare at us it's because they figure we might be considering a remodeling job.

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

A foolish man... built his house upon the sand.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

It turns out that, if you want to know what the U.S. military is doing in Africa, it's advantageous to be connected to a large engineering or construction firm looking for business.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Destroying things is much easier than making them.

I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.

When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

For four years President Trump worked to secure the southern border of the United States by constructing a wall in places where there was little to no fencing.

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.