Quotes about Construction

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.

Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.

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.

Construction cumbers the ground with institutions made by busybodies. Destruction clears it and gives us breathing space and liberty.

The commissioning of the Kaleshwaram project, a man-made wonder, in record time has invited global attention.

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.

The absolute worst place to begin constructing an identity is you, which is precisely where most counseling begins. The absolute best place to begin constructing an identity is Jesus Christ, which is precisely where Scripture begins. Knowing Jesus and being saved by him in faith is the key to your identity and the defeat of your idolatry. It's not about you. It's all about Jesus.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

We were building several lines of railway, and our line from Camelot to London was already finished and in operation.

About two hundred yards off, in the flat, we built a pen of scantlings, about four feet high, and laid planks on it, and so made a platform. We covered it with swell tapestries borrowed for the occasion, and topped it off with the abbot's own throne. When you are going to do a miracle for an ignorant race, you want to get in every detail that will count;

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.