Quotes About Building

Less than two weeks after the selection of the architects had been made, the directors awarded the building contract to Starrett Bros. & Eken.

The step from using steel for strengthening masonry to using steel to carry the masonry might not seem enormous, but, as Harvey Wiley Corbett pointed out in The New York Times, Buffington's step was the single most momentous discovery in the history of building since the days of Rome. Architecture was freed from the shackles of stone weight and was made flexible. Buildings

The core of the building would be used to house the requisite utilities; the rentable office space, assured of light, would surround the core.

Trust is a fragile thing. All it takes is a single moment in time, or a single word, to destroy what took a lifetime to build.

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

By having good memories on every place you just visit, you are building paradise in your own heart and your life.

A beautiful life does not just happen, it is built daily by prayer, humility, sacrifice and love.

Living life.. is like building a house, you have to have a solid foundation before you begin to build or your whole structure will come tumbling down.

The most powerful lessons about ethics and morality do not come from school discussions or classes in character building. They come from family life where people treat one another withrespect, consideration, and love.

Allt detta gjorde kyrkan i mina ögon till någonting helt annorlunda än staden i övrigt: en byggnad som, om man kan uttrycka sig så, var rest i fyra dimensioner - av vilka den fjärde var tiden - genom seklerna sträckande sitt skepp, som från travé till travé, från sidokapell till sidokapell tycktes erövra och överskrida icke endast några meter, utan den ena epoken efter den andra.

These were happy, cheerful moments, innocent in appearance but hiding the growing possibility of disaster: this is what makes the life of lovers the most unpredictable of all, a life in which it can rain sulfur and pitch a moment after the sunniest spell and where, without having the courage to learn from our misfortunes, we immediately start building again on the slopes of the crater which can only spew out catastrophe. I was carefree in the way of those who think their happiness can last.

One can't build a skyscraper out of ideas, and one can't build models without concepts and laws.

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

For five years the Universal Negro Improvement Association has been advocating the cause of Africa for the Africans-that is, that the Negro peoples of the world should concentrate upon the object of building up for themselves a great nation in Africa.

Aedificare diu cogitare oportet. Conserere cogitare non oportet, sed facere oportet. [Building requires long thought: planting requires not thought but action.]

It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities.

CIOs whose enterprises are fighting for survival need to place the most emphasis on building a new IS organization.

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

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.

You can't fix education until you fix the community, education is not a building but a lifestyle and an environment.

I imagine many urban dwellers love this feeling, that moment when you step out of your building and whatever has preoccupied you goes flapping away like a burst of pigeons rising all at once, wing and wind carrying them out into this pulsing, indifferent life.