Constructs Quote by Dave Barry

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

— Arthur Erickson

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

— Joseph Joubert

“ Roman engineering The Romans accomplished amazing feats of engineering as they built roads, bridges, and aqueducts (bridges for water conduits) across their empire.…

— Marilyn Tolhurst

The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions -…

— Boris Johnson

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

— Henry David Thoreau

“A remarkable thing about new technologies in the Roman period is that their creation and spread seem to have been driven by the state.…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Then there is Roman engineering: the Roman roads, aqueducts, the Colosseum. Warfare, alas, has always been beneficial to engineering. Yet there are unmistakeable trends…

— Petr Beckmann

“Inventions have long-since reached their limit--and I see no hope for further developments." -- Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)”

— Julius Frontinus

Everybody knows the quote 'Rome was not built in a day' but only few are willing to wait the years!

— Soyobi Victoria

“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire,…

— Alan Weisman

“The Roman historian Plutarch estimated that the civilized Romans under Julius Caesar, in his decade-long campaign in Gaul, destroyed 800 towns and villages and…

— Mark Kurlansky

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

— Iain McGilchrist