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I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations. -- Robert Mayer
If I had been a bricklayer Id still have been a journeyman. -- Fred L. Turner
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. -- Colleen Barrett
Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big. -- Richard Branson
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer. -- Mick Jagger
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
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
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
I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers. -- Billy Joel
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
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
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
I was the worst bricklayer in the world. I can show you buildings I worked on - they're a hazard. I closed a window one time. I forgot to set back a brick and I just kept going - there I was singing 'There's no business like show business'. -- Pat Cooper
The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white bricklayers, and white painters will not work side by side with the blacks in the North but do it in almost every Southern State... -- Alexis de Tocqueville
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
The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish." -- Carl Andre

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