Green Construction Quotes

On that night the sky laid bare its internal construction in many sections which, like quasi-anatomical exhibits, showed the spirals and whorls of light, the pale-green solids of darkness, the plasma of space, the tissue of dreams. ~ Bruno Schulz

The morning grass was damp and cool with dew. My yellow rain slicker must have looked sharp contrasted against the bright green that spring provided. I must have looked like an early nineteenth century romantic poet (Walt Whitman, perhaps?) lounging around a meadow celebrating nature and the glory of my existence. But don't make this about me. Don't you dare. This was about something bigger than me (by at least 44 feet).

I was there to unselfishly throw myself in front of danger (nothing is scarier than a parked bulldozer), in the hopes of saving a tree, and also procuring a spot in a featured article in my local newspaper. It's not about celebrity for me, it's about showing that I care. It's not enough to just quietly go about caring anymore. No, now we need the world to see that we care. I was just trying to do my part to show I was doing my part.

But no journalists or TV news stations came to witness my selfless heroics. In fact, nobody came at all, not even Satan's henchmen (the construction crew). People might scoff and say, "But it was Sunday." Yes, it was Sunday. But if you're a hero you can't take a day off.

I'd rather be brave a day early than a day late. Most cowards show up late to their destiny. But I always show up early, and quite often I leave early too, but at least I have the guts to lay down my life for something I'd die for. Now I only laid down my life for a short fifteen-minute nap, but I can forever hold my chin high as I ~ Jarod Kintz

I want to have scrambled eggs for dinner without this ridiculous construction that a scrambled egg-inclusive meal is breakfast even when it occurs at dinnertime."
"You've gotta pick your battles in this world, Hazel," my mom said. "But if this is the issue you want to champion, we will stand behind you. ~ John Green

I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development. ~ Nico Tortorella

Providing clean, efficient solar/electric generators to industries such as oil companies, spanning from film and event production, construction, disaster relief, agriculture, forestry, and nonprofit organizations. We're literally helping green oil companies, helping them find ways to pollute less while creating jobs. When I look at the breadth of positive impact these technologies can have, I truly get excited. Imagine a generator where ZERO fuel is used! ~ Ian Somerhalder

The industrial towns of the North are ugly because they happen to have been built at a time when modern methods of steel-construction and smoke-abatement were unknown, and when everyone was too busy making money to think about anything else. ...But since the war, industry has tended to shift southward and in doing so has grown almost comely. The typical post-war factory is not a gaunt barrack or an awful chaos of blackness and belching chimneys; it is a glittering white structure of concrete, glass and steel, surrounded by green lawns and beds of tulips. ...As Mr Aldous Huxley has truly remarked, a dark Satanic mill ought to look like a dark Satanic mill and not like the temple of mysterious and splendid gods. ~ George Orwell

The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned. ~ Jill Shalvis

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. ~ Jimenez Lai

Every human being is under construction from conception to death. ~ Billy Graham

The Church is a perpetual construction site. ~ Henri De Lubac

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail. ~ Warren Farrell

The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical. ~ Lee Battersby

Induction for deduction, with a view to construction. ~ Auguste Comte

Green grass, green grandstands, green concession stalls, green paper cups, green folding chairs and visors for sale, green and white ropes, green-topped Georgia pines. If justice were poetic, Hubert Green would win it every year. ~ John Updike

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias. ~ Wyndham Lewis

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context ... ~ Aberjhani

I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool. ~ Mark Ruffalo

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle. ~ Eartha Kitt

Chicago has only two seasons: winter and construction. ~ Beth Evans

Me and my family growing up, we cleared our land built our homes and all that. So, I was very well knowledgeable in the construction world. That turned into a commercial development company and construction company. ~ Drew Waters

At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time. ~ Roger Staubach

I have many women executives. I always have. When I was back in the construction days, the big construction days, I had women in charge of big developments. ~ Donald Trump

Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable. ~ Martin Filler

Where did you find construction guys swapping dirty jokes in proto-Númenorean?" Aura asked.

"On construction sites. Is that coffee ready? ~ John Barnes

The 'Love Undercover' series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes. ~ Lori Foster

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high. ~ Gus Van Sant

The thin line between life and death is still under construction. ~ Santosh Kalwar

With all this talk of Going Green, Buying Green, Living Green, and Green being the new whatever, I've come to realize that, although we had no green, my grandmother was actually the 'greenest' person I've ever known. ~ Joy Bryant

1.A green-glass beanstalk
2.An abstract represenation of a tree
3.A greener, glassier, uglier Washingtong Movement
4. The Jolly Green Giant's gigantic jolly green phallus. ~ John Green

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction. ~ Rafael Correa

They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano ~ Clark Gable

Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables. ~ Tae Yun Kim

End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave
inspired hy a road sign she saw. ~ Billy Graham

Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. ~ Rachel Maddow

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

Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers. ~ Michelle Malkin

My construction will cover the entire Universe. ~ Sathya Sai Baba

A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine. ~ Ned Vizzini

Green vegetables are something that fascinate chefs; the ability to keep vegetables green. How do we keep them green? What makes them green? Why are they green? And then that sort of army green. Why do they go from bright vibrant electric green to army green, and how can we avoid that? ~ Wylie Dufresne

Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk. ~ Howard Schultz

It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created. ~ Dennis Hastert

Knowledge is knowledge whether it teaches you construction or destruction. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself. ~ Amy Poehler

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness. ~ Umberto Eco

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data. ~ Thomas Kuhn

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death. ~ Mason Cooley

The construction of a communist society would be completed 'in the main' by 1980 ~ Nikita Khrushchev

Having toddlers always means that there's a fair amount of chaos at home, but that's part of the fun. And from a work perspective, we have projects under construction all over the world, including many right here in the US. ~ Ivanka Trump

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction. ~ Margaret Atwood

Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty. ~ Sunday Adelaja

Construction is the art of making a meaningful whole out of many parts. Buildings are witnesses to the human ability to construct concrete things. I believe that the real core of all architectural work lies in the act of construction. At the point in time concrete materials are assembled and erected, the architecture we have been looking for becomes part of the real world. ~ Peter Zumthor

The truth is that a nineteenth-century warehouse exhibits greater craft in its construction than all but the most expensive modern buildings. ~ Witold Rybczynski

I love you present tense. ~ John Green

Genius is not enough, it takes Courage to change people's hearts. ~ Green Book

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals. ~ Gerrit Smith

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction. ~ William Henry Maule

Sometimes I think the resurrection of the body, unless much improved in construction, a mistake! ~ Evelyn Underhill

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca

The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry. ~ Iannis Xenakis

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. ~ Paul Hawken

That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them. ~ John Green

This is it. I can't even not smoke anymore ~ John Green

You're upsetting the black Santas. ~ John Green

I've matured, maybe, but not grown up. ~ Green Day

The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes. ~ Spencer Bachus

Flowers are red, and green leaves are green. There's no need to see flowers any other way than the way they always have been seen. ~ Harry Chapin

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

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence. ~ Cesar Pelli

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction. ~ Anson Mount

To construct is the essence of vision. Dispense with
construction and you dispense with vision. Everything you experience by sight is your construction. ~ Donald D. Hoffman

When I saw Orlando from an airplane, it looked like a LEGO set sunk into an ocean of green. ~ John Green

Okay, well, I feel more like seven things than one thing. ~ John Green

A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it. ~ John Green

Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music has always been the perfect construction - an inaccessible ideal. ~ Dumitru Tepeneag

Failure does not exist. Once you hit the construction zone road blocks, follow the detour signs to get back to ur original path. ~ Behdad Sami

My life: under construction, but beautiful. ~ A.D. Posey

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green? ~ Carson McCullers

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture. ~ Adrienne Monnier

I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers. ~ Bill Shorten

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated. ~ Sue Grafton

Pain demands to be felt. ~ John Green

Always will be are forever!!-John Green TFIOS ~ John Green

You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Mike, we are a green energy company, but the green stands for money. ~ Jeffrey Skilling

Remember, do the things that you fucking believe in, alright? This is what it's all about right now. [MTV Awards 2005] ~ Green Day

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find. ~ Sun Yat-sen

She loved so much misteries tha she became one ~ John Green

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ~ Plato

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life. ~ John Green

The tragic effects of terrorism have forced the new-construction industry to re-evaluate traditional methods of fire protection in commercial infrastructures. That includes everything from building codes, to structural design issues and the less durable fireproofing materials currently specified for commercial steel structures. ~ Craig Scott

You're just a really loud, awkward ninja, but we are both ninjas. ~ John Green

I'd been in the dark so long I was still craving it. ~ John Green

I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand. ~ Benjamin Walker

Photographs are just light and time, ~ John Green

And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to. ~ John Green

Sometimes it seems the universe just wants to be noticed. ~ John Green

Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett ~ John Green

Margo was so beautiful that even her fake smiles were convincing. (54) ~ John Green

How will we ever get out, straight and fast, of this labyrinth of suffering? ~ John Green