Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Buildings have been made because of man.

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

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

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

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.

I just build and build more yall niggas build and destroy

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

Today is today. But there are many tomorrows

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

All your tomorrows start here.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

We expect too much of new #‎ buildings , and too little of ourselves.