Quotes About Surveyors

#1. Some surveyors live for the work, putting in weeks or months at a time in remote locations. With a young family and hobbies that I'm passionate about, that isn't the path I've chosen. Like in many careers, you need to make your own decisions and follow your own path.

Mark Mason

#2. Professional land surveyors take on a lot of responsibility, and should be compensated appropriately.

Mark Mason

#3. When a scumball turns on Songs of Praise he sees three hundred quantity surveyors warbling about 'My Lord in heaven', and he knows his name's not on the guest list.

Ian Pattison

#4. People sometimes are under the impression that finding their property corners should cost as much as changing their oil or blowing out their sprinklers. What they don't realize is that land surveyors are required to stand behind their work for the rest of their lives.

Mark Mason

#5. I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.

Mark Mason

#6. Instead of winding and skirting, Roman roads tend to go straight to the top. The chariots were light and the shortest distance between two points seemed to have governed their surveyors. I've read that some of their roadbeds go down twelve feet.

Frances Mayes

#7. Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

Ted Dexter

#8. We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Legal land surveyors are few and far between and can find themselves in demand.

Mark Mason

#10. Below the roads run the surveyors' lines which squared off the wilderness, and not only made it ready for sale but constructed a shape for county and state government.

Andro Linklater

#11. When I got my commission, other land surveyors told me to ask for advice from my peers when I was struggling with something.

Mark Mason

#12. A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property.

Mark Mason

#13. I've met very few professional land surveyors who regret their career path, and even fewer, who are out of work, even during economic slowdowns.

Mark Mason

#14. When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

Ove Arup

#15. I think that people can get caught up in the "gee-whiz" technology of surveying, which is constantly changing, and forget about the legal aspects and the professional responsibility that surveyors bear - something that hasn't changed much at all in hundreds of years.

Mark Mason

#16. So claim'd are the Surveyors in their contra-solar Return by Might-it-bes, and If-it-weres, - not to mention What-was-thats.

Thomas Pynchon

#17. In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy."

Mark Mason

#18. Some land surveyors delve into land development advocacy, working with local government on behalf of clients in order to facilitate progress on a project. Others stick to strictly surveying. The approach depends on the individual firm and the needs of the local area.

Mark Mason

#19. It's important to know that, unlike lawyers, land surveyors put the public interest first. That means we're not biased by our client - this means that the property line will be drawn in the most equitable position, regardless of which neighbor is paying the bill.

Mark Mason

#20. I'm lucky enough to split my time between the field and the office. Some land surveyors in larger outfits can work mostly from behind a desk, managing many field crews at once.

Mark Mason

#21. Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.

Christine Pelosi

#22. Animals lived out there, but fort surveyors declared that there were no predators. The shades had gotten those long ago, drawn by the shedding of blood.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

Marcel Proust

#24. Land surveyors start as employees, and move up to partnership in a firm or to ownership of their own enterprise if they wish. Some wind up working for government, private corporations, or public enterprise.

Mark Mason

#25. Land surveyors can spend as much time reading legislation, bylaws, and engineering documents as we spend in front of an instrument in the field or calculating coordinates for a subdivision. We are mathematicians, historians, project managers, advocates, engineers, and even chainsaw operators!

Mark Mason

#26. There isn't a performer on earth that isn't an exhibitionist. There isn't any point in being in this business if you're not an exhibitionist. And, by the way, you can be an exhibitionist and be very shy as well.

Madonna Ciccone

#27. One person's murder is another person's strict discipline. Don't be so judgemental.

Z.V. Hunter

#28. Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

Nicholas Sparks

#29. Regret is more than inevitable, it's a constant companion. A relationship that becomes comfortable. Regret never wants to break up.

Jim Mitchem

#30. I mean we're really not going to change anything we've done with Xbox One.

Larry Hryb

#31. Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.

Naya Rivera

#32. There's a bit of a difference between a guy lying back being all sexy and come hither and mmrowr-worthy, and a man who has a toy stuffed parrot hanging from his nips.

Katie MacAlister

#33. You pick up the phone and you talk to somebody. There's a voice on the other end and you say what you have to say. This is how I perceive my life. I don't see myself as "Oh, I'm doing this great thing because I'm going to give this talk, now everybody's going to be transformed."

Eckhart Tolle

#34. It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy.

Ron Perlman

#35. Everybody turns to look at him. It is quite frightening.

Ali Smith