Top 240 Construction Quotes

Immigrants are critical to our strength in every essential industry, from agriculture and education to health care, domestic work, construction, food processing, technology, and many more.

Most women prefer circles of sharing to pyramids and hierarchies. They prefer conversation to construction. They will usually choose nurturance and empathy over competition and climbing. They will normally choose connection over simple performance games.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn’t exist in the world, you know. There’s not one such country anywhere in the world.

The construction of permanent sea walls can be taken up only in places where there is sea erosion due to heavy anthropogenic pressures. The locations for such non-living barriers should be determined on the basis of a carefully conducted erosion-vulnerability analysis.

I have two young children, and they both adore books. Reading together at bedtime is one of our favorite nightly rituals. ‘Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site’ by Sherri Duskey Rinker, ‘The Giving Tree’ by Shel Silverstein, and ‘On The Night You Were Born’ by Nancy Tillman are always on our list.

Misclassification is a serious problem in construction as well as other industries, and it is exacerbated by increasingly fissured employment structures where work is contracted and subcontracted away from the core company.

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that’s great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.

The great Comrade Kim Jong Il provided energetic guidance to defend and honour Comrade Kim Il Sung’s idea of and exploits in socialist rural construction and make UAWK organizations creditably perform their duties as organizations for ideological education.

The tourism industry has considerable potential to be a sustainability role model in its role as a buyer of goods and other services, from building materials and green construction standards to farm produce.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

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

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

Texas was home. We went to Anchorage to get rich in 1959. Someone told us, ‘If you drive a nail, you could make $100 a day in construction work.’ We were hungry, and we stayed there for a year and a half. But I never did plan to stay there – the same with Nashville. I was gonna go up there and work, but Texas was home.

Climate protection creates sustainability and jobs in the real economy – in construction, in the production of heavy machinery and in systems engineering.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

The more the UK feels distanced from European construction the less others are able to benefit from the full influence of the many good things that the UK can help us all to achieve, and therefore there are many areas where I think it would be beneficial to have the UK fully at the table.

I build a lot of stuff, but I’m not a ‘construction guy.’ But I’m one of these guys that sits with his hands on his hips and tells you I’m gonna fix everything.

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

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.

I don’t make my bed. At the end of a day of going to construction sites, the last thing I want to do is move 10 pillows off the bed.

My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I’ll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.

The construction toy category is one category that has a lot of room to grow online.

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

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

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

Panama is a country that’s been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.

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

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.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

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.

I grew up in a house that was constantly under construction. It’s been under construction my whole life. My mom loves interior decor, and my dad loves construction – he loves demolition and building new walls.

I think the Schwontkowski banner will help publicize the construction of the new Globe and probably will also help fundraising.

I paid my way through school doing set construction for film and television. I’m a member of Local 44. I was a construction coordinator on ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ for 4 1/2 years and ran their whole construction program. I did two other pilots as a coordinator for Aaron Spelling.

Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level, there’s artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there’s the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to perform a particular function.

I was following my dad around from a young age. 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.

I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs – barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker – and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

If a small, rural town in Montana had just five or 10 people move back home, that would be five or 10 homes that either had to be purchased or built – that creates construction jobs.

I think it’s good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

I strongly support the construction of the Keystone Pipeline and favor expanding offshore drilling to make our nation less dependent on foreign oil.

Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It’s part of being a man. It’s the cultural construction of masculinity.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.

I’ve worked at a deli, I’ve worked construction, I’ve worked a few different jobs.

I believe that we, every day, 24-7, all the days of our lives, we are, all of us, agents of construction and agents of destruction.