Groucho Marx Quotes

Today is the blocks with which we build.

Windows were the first thing we made ourselves. Other products, such as cement and plasterboard, came later. Some of the factories we actually built because of union blockades trying to stop us getting supplies.

Masonry has erected her temples, as well as in the most frontier settlements, as in the most populous villages and cities.

New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem

Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs.

What need the bridge much broader than the flood?

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.

A terrace nine stories high begins with a pile of earth.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

I like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

I'm a creature of the New York City streets.

The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.

To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I wanted to be an architect. After 50 years I am still learning all what that means. Working together with so many people has been enormously gratifying. Being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.

We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

You're the reason why I'll move to the city; you're why I'll need to leave.

Commies love concrete.

One important role for the city is to conduct studies to document areas of greatest need, and to facilitate coordination between our public and private transportation options to weave it into a dense tapestry of accessible and reliable transportation.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.