Quotes about masonry (12 Quotes)


    But the trial didn't proceed to a final conclusion to determine liability. We have no serious concerns over the safety of Masonry, which is one of the reasons we continue to work with them.



    By carefully scratching away at the interior walls, being very sensitive and very careful in that process, we started to reveal that first of all there was a lot of existing masonry left with its decoration from the original building,

    The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.


    In his capacity as an American citizen, each man of our Craft will do what seems to him wise and just and right and to the best interest of his country but let us hope and pray that no echo of angry debate may be heard in any Lodge of Masons ... lest we injure what is priceless.... By the same token, the men who stand out in our history, to whom we pay the highest homage, are the men of personality, principle and ideals, who, combining sympathy and good will with unbending loyalty to great truths, defied the cynical spirit and wrought disinterestedly for the common good. By as much as Masonry creates such men and endows them with moral ideals, by so much does it render its highest service to the country and the Craft.

    We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.


    It saved us (Marion Union Station Association) 10,000 by cleaning it ourselves, ... The guy who's working on it (Bill Bowers, Quality Masonry) said they have to do it one-eighth at a time. One-eighth of the skylight is in place. He is planning to put up two more in December.

    Every yard is different to convey individualism, at least as much as you can with a 25-foot wide space. We have a whole pallet of materials for the buyers to choose from, beginning with the brick or masonry on the outside and continuing inside the units with a wide array of options. We wanted plenty of choices so each home would have an individual feel.


    With a building of this kind, because it's masonry, it is more susceptible to weather than maybe a steel frame building, because steel is not as affected by rain and cold in same way that rock and concrete is,



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