Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good…

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

— Sam Rayburn

“Any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a carpenter to build on.”

— Sam Rayburn

“Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one." (Good comment for reflecting on Nazism)”

— Sam Rayburn

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related…

— Quincy Jones

You don't need a college degree to be a good carpenter, welder, plumber, auto mechanic, member of the armed forces, or firefighter.

— Kathy Szeliga

“Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one." (God comment to reflect on Nazism)”

— Sam Rayburn

It's the ones that deal with the inner fear, the unknown realms and the mysticisms that are scary. You had that in the Carpenter…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game…

— Robin Hobb

As I've gotten old I've really listened to a wide spectrum of music, whether it's The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z or Lauryn…

— Brooklyn Sudano

There's a devil inside me which cries, "You're not the son of the Carpenter, you're the son of King David! You are not a…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant…

— Max Lucado

As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude…

— Zhuangzi

Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

— Sappho

Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're…

— Ziggy Marley

An axe at home saves hiring a carpenter.

— Friedrich Schiller