Construction Site Quotes

We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

Bobby Martin has another project. He's building a house. He's out there at 6 o'clock in the morning hammering nails.

First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic... in morse code.

I resolve not to build but at one place; namely, at Belfast.

Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.

I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.

I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.

My husband's idea of a date night somehow always involves me looking at one of his development sites.

I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.

I worked construction clean-up. I was driving a pickup truck at the age of 14 on a construction site. I loved building and being part of the process. You got to see your work.

I was 18 and had taken A-levels in Woking where I grew up. But I didn't want to go to university so left sixth-form college. My father was in the building industry and he found me a job stripping concrete panels off buildings. It was dangerous work on high scaffolds, sometimes 12 hours a day, Monday to Friday, and often weekends too.

I did a lot of heavy-lifting - construction, demolition, that kind of thing. Dusty, dirty work.

My son is all into construction vehicles like most boys are, so he's enthralled with dump trucks and bulldozers.

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.

I feel I'm a hammer to the construction worker that is the filmmaker.

A clipboard and a hard hat could get you just about anywhere.

I almost ran into a construction worker driving the other day. He may have planned to scream at me or something, but he saw me and said, 'Hey, you're that guy on 'Dharma & Greg.'

It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know who a project is by.

I pour concrete. I'm a construction guy.

Mr. President, I agree that the future of our civilization may depend on the success of this project. Where in Tennessee are we going to build it?

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.