"Like little spiders (the steelworkers) toil, spinning a fabric of steel against the sky. Crawling, climbing, swinging, swooping ... weaving a web that was to stretch farther heavenward than the ancient tower of Babel, or than all of the elder towers of the modern Babel, as Manhattan has sometimes been tagged."
- `Literary Digest,' May 1931.
"Cities do not build themselves, machines cannot make machines, unless back of them all are the brains and toil of men."
- Lewis Hine, photographer of Empire State Building construction.
"It's a doll, it's a princess, it stands alone for good lines."
- John Crowley, carpenter involved in building the Empire State Building.
