Quotes about Construction
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.
- Gregory of Nazianzus
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
- Thomas a Kempis
Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.
- Victor Hugo
It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.
- Victor Hugo
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
- St. Augustine
As Don Everts says in his book Jesus with Dirty Feet, "Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.
- Shane Claiborne
How could two people get the same set of parts and make such different constructions? But then, there was rising. That had to be taken into account. What could a doormat rear but a pair of boots?
- Barbara Kingsolver
And God, the Master Builder. This is the meaning behind Joseph's words God meant it for good in order to bring about... The Hebrew word translated here as bring about is a construction term
- Max Lucado
Which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? Luke 14:28
- Beth Moore
You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.
- St. Augustine
The Land of Israel needs to build and be built, period.
- Eli Yishai
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright