Best Civil Engineering Quotes

#1. Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail.

Joe Pitkin

#2. My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

Eric Allin Cornell

#3. If you must be a glutton, be a glutton for work.

Charles M. Schwab

#4. Those statues were exquisitely carved, without exception; that was what the Egyptians were really good at, along with organized religion and civil engineering.

Jonathan Stroud

#5. Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

Rod Stewart

#6. The form a city assumes as it evolves over time owes more to large-scale works of civil engineering - what we now call infrastructure - than almost any other factor save topography.

Martin Filler

#7. HE who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

George Bishop Berkeley

#8. Go for civil engineering, because civil engineering is the branch of engineering which teaches you the most about managing people. Managing people is a skill which is very, very useful and applies almost regardless of what you do.

John Harvey-Jones

#9. George Washington was quite a farmer. He was a farmer, Civil Engineer and gentleman. He made enough at civil engineering to indulge in both the other luxuries.

Will Rogers

#10. My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Cole Porter

#11. I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

Daniel J. Evans

#12. The funnel-shaped devices are tremie tubes, which are apparently being used to avoid having the wet concrete free fall into the forms where the 4-cubic-yard buckets could not fit to pour directly.

Ray Bottenberg

#13. Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.

Evan Davis

#14. Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.

Albert Einstein

#15. [A] pile driver was improvised by mounting a large steam donkey engine, a steam hammer, and a timber tower on a barge.

Ray Bottenberg

#16. It had bred false camaraderies and drawn my attention to deep flaws and fault lines when what mattered
what matters so often in the course of everyday human life
were the surfaces and the joins.

Michael Chabon

#17. Take the best that exists and make it better.

Henry Royce

#18. Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.

Richard Ebeling

#19. I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.

Thuy Trang

#20. Error is human,perfection is divine!You are not God! Your mistake is normal.So forgive yourself.

Paul Gitwaza

#21. It takes analytical skills worthy of a degree in civil engineering to understand when and where one is allowed to leave a car in Montreal.

Kathy Reichs

#22. It is contrary to the usual practice of professional men to give their opinions upon each other's work unless regularly called upon in the way of their profession.

John Smeaton