Best Bricklayer Quotes

#1. If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman.

Fred L. Turner

#2. Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#3. He never retorted that the artist is not a bricklayer at all, but a horseman whose business it is to catch Pegasus at once, not to practise for him by mounting tamer colts. This is hard, hot and generally ungraceful work, but it is not drudgery. For drudgery is not art, and cannot lead to it.

E. M. Forster

#4. I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace.

Corbin Bernsen

#5. I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

Robert Mayer

#6. He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

Shel Silverstein

#7. The only other thing that interested me as a kid was being a bricklayer. So if I hadn't become an actress, I would probably be a bricklayer.

Nikki Cox

#8. I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

Harmony Korine

#9. The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he's building a home, not just laying bricks.

Herb Kelleher

#10. My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

Stanley Hauerwas

#11. I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

Ellsworth Kelly

#12. I used to help out my father, a bricklayer, in the summer. I'd catch the bricks (that were dropped). And it made me strong, catching those bricks. I wouldn't change anything about it. That's why I'm where I am today. Really.

Jerry Rice

#13. I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.

Jerry Rice

#14. Music is my life. The last job I had, I was a bricklayer's apprentice. And I was happy with that job, too, because it was something that made me feel good. To build a wall for the side of a building felt really good to me.

Mark Wahlberg

#15. My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

Mick Jagger