Construction Work Quotes

I would say for everyday I build buildings or houses like a bricklayer with canvas and paint.

Out of all my friends, I believe I'm the only kid whose dad made us work to cut rebars; we laid bricks in construction sites and did other real work every summer for minimum wage. Our dad said that it's important in the future that when we tell people to dig a hole, that you personally know how long it will take to dig that hole.

My first job was as a day laborer on the construction of the Long Island Expressway more than 50 years ago.

There are a couple things that I could be doing, maybe owning a coffee shop or work in construction, building houses back in Nashville or British Columbia. I've also thought about being a property owner which would give me income and allow me to fix and maintain those properties to keep me busy.

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.

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

I like to build houses.

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

There's a lot of labor involved in the birth of a new town.

Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

I always feel great. I get to come to work every day and see the build from the night before, and every day we do more stuff.

I've framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard.

I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day.

The typical jobs that a lower-skilled immigration worker might do might be construction work, it might be hospitality work, it might be restaurant work, or might be not working at all and just going onto the welfare system if there isn't a job for that individual.

I'll always build houses.

My first experience with the creative was mopping tar. If you let the tar sit, it can get cold pretty quickly. And because the mops are so heavy, you've got to dip it and then ride it really fast.

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

My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother designed a cabin, a log cabin, like a - it was like a Swiss chalet. I was twelve years old, and my father and I built it on a rocky point peninsula out into Lake Superior.

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.

I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

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

I was working on this bedroom, and from where I was, in the beating hot sun, I could see Madonna's castle on the next ridge over. It was hilarious - there I was, this Maritime carpenter, staring at Madonna's castle. So it's been a windy road.