Construction Sites Quotes

• You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Design, Hammers, Use

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• The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Two, Drawing, Design

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• I love my career, but I feel like you've got to babysit a lot of aspects of things. Assuming that things will be handled properly is just naive. But I think that's anyone's life, right? Even if you're running a construction site, it doesn't matter if you've been doing it for 20 years, you're still going to be blindsided by someone's incompetence or indifference.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Running, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Just stop at one of these construction sites and look and see who those workers are. They're all Hispanic ... And I bet you they're illegal.

  John McCain

  Looks, Illegal, Hispanic

  "Bush May Bow in Immigration Policy". www.foxnews.com. August 27, 2005.

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• As you know, there were lots of huge marches around the country yesterday to protest the immigration laws. The marches had quite an impact on businesses. Restaurants had to close, construction sites had to shut down, the Yankees had to forfeit a game. ... Do you realize that Americans are now doing the jobs that immigrants won't do because they're out protesting?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Jobs, Impact

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• We always look at the 'Fortune ,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Glasses, Safety

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• The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

  Warren Farrell

  Dirty, Men, Law

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• Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Fashion, Art, Furniture

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.216, U of Nebraska Press

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• Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

  Ed Rendell

  Jobs, Pennsylvania, Unions

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• The Church is a perpetual construction site.

  Henri de Lubac

  Faith, Inspiration, Church

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• For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Jobs, Years, Docks

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