Construction Quotes · Page 6

Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation.

— Jane D. Hull

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

— Jean Piaget

I don't make my bed. At the end of a day of going to construction sites, the last thing I want to…

— Jonathan Scott

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

— Gus Van Sant

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

— David Baszucki

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.

— Wendell Berry

“The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.”

— Lee Battersby

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

— Tamara Feldman

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

— Major Owens

Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and…

— William Rothenstein

Ultimately, I know what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I'm trying to be a construction worker. I'm trying to make…

— Ian MacKaye

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed;…

— Charles Dickens

In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction…

— Immanuel Kant

I was in oil when oil was $8 a barrel and in construction when interest rates were 20 percent. I was looking…

— Kenny Troutt

When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why…

— Milton Friedman

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by…

— Isaac Newton

There's something advantageous about being a woman in rock versus, say, a woman in chemistry or construction. There's definitely a built-in sexism…

— Amanda Palmer

I got involved, for the most part, in the actual song construction, lyrics even. I didn't want to write the lyrics, but…

— Michael Gira

One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and…

— Walter Isaacson

I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public…

— Sam Houston

It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for…

— Paulo Freire

Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other…

— Ed Rendell

Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them… for really new…

— Jane Jacobs

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

— Dennis Hastert

“Exceptional leaders transfer their vision and aspirations to their team by the way they project themselves.”

— Arshad Wahedna

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I worked at a construction site, cooked in marriage halls and even sweated it out at an iron factory.

— Samuthirakani

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up…

— Clifford Geertz

The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned.

— Jill Shalvis

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

— Sam Wanamaker

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

— Keith Ellison

You might be a redneck if you have been fired from a construction job because of your appearance.

— Jeff Foxworthy

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

— Thomas Jefferson

“When business owners focus on learning and growing, money follows by default.”

— Arshad Wahedna

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

— Adrienne Monnier

Less is more. I truly believe in buying a few pieces with better construction.

— Stacy London

Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!

— Helen Keller

“Word hard, work smart but no matter you do, work in silence. Great battles were won with stealth.”

— Arshad Wahedna

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

— Elizabeth Diller