Construction Quotes - page 3

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine. (Ned Vizzini)
Aside from its importance to many branches of science, a knowledge of the oceans has a practical value for mankind. The intelligent development of our fishing industries, the laying of oceanic cables, the proper construction of harbor-works, oceanic commerce and navigation, as well as long-range weather forecasting, are all dependent on an understanding of the ocean. View quote
Paul J. H. Schoemaker
A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful. View quote
Steve Harvey
Demolition is a part of construction. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction. View quote
Kim Cattrall
The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly. View quote
Giovanni Agnelli
End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw. View quote
Billy Graham
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject. View quote
Sam Raimi
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey. View quote
Antony Hewish
Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves. View quote
Adrienne Clarkson
In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly. (Al Roker)
I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time. View quote
Breaux Greer
The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area. View quote
Bridget Moynahan
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success. View quote
Bernard Arnault
In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace. View quote
Claudio Hummes
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. View quote
David Allan Coe
If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational. View quote
David Chipperfield
The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans? View quote
David Plouffe
I really love Paul Smith. And Chrome Hearts. They make the most beautiful, high-end leather and outerwear and jewelry you've ever seen. But I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes and especially people that put time into the construction of them. View quote
Dean Winters
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette. (Ed Markey)
Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked. View quote
Ed Rendell
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood. View quote
Greg Lynn
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today. View quote
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. View quote
James Larkin