Building Quotes

I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.

We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.

What valuable company is nobody building?

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

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

I often get asked if I think I'm ever going to build something useful, and maybe someday I will.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

Architecture is invention.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

Builders may receive due encouragement by having materials for building at reasonable prices.

I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.

I have a big brother who would make dolls' houses and playhouses and furniture out of wood. He was the one who taught me from such a young age that you could just make something. The physical act of gluing something together was really formative for me.

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

We have been harnessing every aspect of what makes Avenged truly unrelenting and building off of that.

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.

I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I'd spend the rest of my time building.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.