Quotes About Construction

People never think, until it happens to their place, that all construction is destruction. The whole planet is paved in the dead, who are ignored so the living can dig their foundations.

Recognizing the merits of the child does not diminish the authority of the father and the mother for when they come to realize that they are not the constructors, but merely the helpers of this construction, then they will be able to do their duty better; they will help the child with a greater vision.

Number ... should not be understood solely as a construction of consciousness, but also as an archetype and thus as a constituent of nature both without and within.

Form follows finances instead of function.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

I am like a hardware store. I screw. I nut. I bolt.

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

Roman engineering The Romans accomplished amazing feats of engineering as they built roads, bridges, and aqueducts (bridges for water conduits) across their empire. This 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct at Segovia, in central Spain, has 128 arches. No mortar was used to cement the large blocks of granite together. Good roads were one of the reasons for the success of the Roman Empire. They allowed troops and supplies to be moved swiftly, before the enemy could either attack or escape.

Siempre es más fácil destruir que construir. Mete más ruido en el bosque un árbol que cae que cien que están creciendo "; pag 25.

Quizá porque el amor ha construido con paciencia y fervor su telaraña, donde el odio que cae está perdido.

Highway building, in their scheme, was a form of social and economic therapy.

Put another way, road engineers had relied on the supposedly apolitical principles of highway building as their major form of political expression.

More than $7 billion a year was spent in prison construction during the 1990s. By 2012 the annual cost of maintaining prisons at all levels rose to over $60 billion.

And at the center of what is left of the American republic is the Constitution. The Constitution is the bedrock on which the nation was built. As Thomas Jefferson explained, "Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction."2

Word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, a book is built.

Rigid plans work best if you're building a skyscraper; with something as mysteriously human as giving birth, it's best, both literally and figuratively, to keep your knees bent.

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

I just think [Gangster Party Line] is funny and stupid and all the dudes in it are real dudes. It's just a funny construction.

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.