Donald Trump Quotes

In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission.

The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.

I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.

When you build a house, you have to start from the floor. You have to start from the bottom, the defence, and then you fix the attack.

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

Houses were knocked down; streets broken through and stopped; deep pits and trenches dug in the ground; enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped by great beams of wood. In short, the yet unfinished and unopened Railroad was in progress.

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

Demolition is a part of construction.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

I just love building buildings. I'm the largest developer in New York City. I'm having a lot of fun doing it. I think I've never had more fun. I'm just enjoying my life.

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

It's up to men to build things ... it's up to God to blow them down.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of my time in New York. One of the things I like about the Village is, it's considered the kind of area where you can't have skyscrapers or, actually, many tall buildings. So you can see the sky which, I think, is a benefit.

Buildings have been made because of man.

It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity.

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.