Builder Quote by Hammurabi

if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.

— Hammurabi

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

— Michel de Montaigne

a man who builds a house never really dies.

— Margaret Mahy

One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

— Gaston Bachelard

Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at…

— Leo Tolstoy

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by…

— Abraham Lincoln

There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its…

— Natsuhiko Kyogoku

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink…

— Sai Baba

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

— Igor Stravinsky

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are…

— Rem Koolhaas

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

— Rumi

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

— Philip Johnson