Construction Begins

Famous quotes containing the words construction and/or begins:

“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of our factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States. A man hardly knows how much he is a machine, until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press, and locomotive, in his own image.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)