Ready Mix Concrete

Famous quotes containing the words ready, mix and/or concrete:

“But that two-handed engine at the door
Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more.”
Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass’d”
—John Milton (1608–1674)

“Much of our reading, much of our labor, seems mere waiting: it was not that we were born for. Any other could do it as well or better. So little skill enters into these works, so little do they mix with the divine life, that it really signifies little what we do, whether we turn a grindstone, or ride, or run, or make fortune, or govern the state.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“freeways fifty lanes wide
on a concrete continent
spaced with bland billboards
illustrating imbecile illusions of happiness”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)