Quotes about Construction
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Winston Churchill
It is not the business of the historian to construct a history from preconceived notions and to adjust it to his own liking, but to reproduce it from the best evidence and to let it speak for itself.
- Philip Schaff
The duty of the historian is not to make the facts, but to discover them, and then to construct his theory wide enough to give them all comfortable room.
- Philip Schaff
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.
- Watchman Nee
There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.
- Thomas Paine
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
- Jim Bakker