Top 32 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. When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.
Nick Flynn
#5. Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.
Daryl Hall
#6. 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
#7. I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.
Robert Mayer
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
Harmony Korine
#11. When a woman gives birth, two are born: a baby from the womb of its mother and a woman from the womb of her former existence.
Marianne Williamson
#12. Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.
Steven Yeun
#13. An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.
Chris Everheart
#14. In order to reduce the deficit, there has to be revenue in addition to cuts.
Jim Lehrer
#15. The important thing is to take the bricklayer and make him understand that he's building a home, not just laying bricks.
Herb Kelleher
#16. I want my son to become Sachin Tendulkar.
Brian Lara
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history
Gregory Maguire
#20. 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
#22. If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.
Ben Okri
#23. I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of me are do-nothings. There is racism in the world and they acknowledge it, but they sit in class listening to bullshit professors. Give me a bricklayer with a racist attitude. It is just more honest.
Allan Dare Pearce
#24. We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
Thomas Keating
#25. Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.
Zig Ziglar
#26. Writing is all about tents: sometimes you're competent, sometimes you're eloquetent.
Kevin Focke
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. The Taliban mostly attacks international and Afghan security forces. They rarely carry out attacks in markets.
Richard Engel
#30. Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.
Mickey Hart
#31. My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
Mick Jagger
#32. Just remember the words of Patrick Henry - 'Kill me or let me live.'
Bill Peterson
