Home Construction Quotes

I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

I like to build houses.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

My parents moved to Los Angeles before I was born and built a beautiful home here in Bel Air.

I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

When we build an attractive home, we raze land on which animals have already built their homes. They have nowhere to go.

I've been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

When a man's home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of life.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.

The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.

I advise everyone to build a house at 19. It's such good practice.

My house is the red earth . . . .

I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I've built the house I live in and most of the furniture that's in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still.

One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

Our guns are not called upon to hurl huge projectiles each one of which costs as much as the construction of a happy home.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.