Construction Materials

Famous quotes containing the words construction and/or materials:

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

“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)