Top 1200 Construction Work Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

My dad was a construction worker. I was the youngest of eight kids. There were not a lot of extra resources around.

If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their enquiries; or, in other words, that they will lay down, or at least suggest, "rules" and "conditions to be (hereafter) observed" in the construction of bridges, or, in other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement to-morrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of to-day. [Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.]

We are committed to making construction zones as safe as we possibly can for motorists and those working on the job.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

The number of unfinished construction projects has increased significantly. A lot of these are not covered with any security

I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.

The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.

No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to congress a power to disarm the people.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

I thought I'd be a professional rugby player or go to university and get some degree in construction.

Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.

The entire brain of the organization is here. The construction drawings and data processing all takes place in Rotterdam.

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

Augmented and virtual reality technologies are the future of smart construction and we are just starting to see the possibilities.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

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.

My son is all into construction vehicles like most boys are, so he's enthralled with dump trucks and bulldozers.

When I was up on my first flight, we were really putting it together. So, I was essentially a construction worker.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.

I don't know if it's genetic or just because I was surrounded by it, but I was always fascinated with building and construction and development.

Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

At least five cents in every acre should be reserved for the construction of ponds to store rainwater.

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

My first job in construction paid my way through art school. I was building to pay my bills.

The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

The Italian mafia, they're very [into] construction. They're in a whole different way of operating than they did back in the '20s.

Construction is an important front for solidifying the foundations of a thriving country and creating bases for the people's happy life.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

I think we have to acknowledge that people are different and succeed at different things, first of all. Men are better than women at some professions like firefighting, construction work, and physics. But women are better than men at some professions, too, like elementary teaching, prostitution, and giving birth. Who's to say which is more important?

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets.

I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.

What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.

When a man's suit fits, when the construction is beautiful, when the sewing and fabrics are there... in the end, you'll look the best in it.

The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall.

Just stop at one of these construction sites and look and see who those workers are. They're all Hispanic ... And I bet you they're illegal.

Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly.

I love Alexander McQueen. I like the construction of his suits. I think it's fantastic.

I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

I was always into different stuff: custom cars, electrical, construction, tattooing, decor, you name it.

New Yorkers would be shocked to learn of the conditions some construction workers in our city toil under.