Quotes by Steel During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary. Rachel Swirsky without existence steel water I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class. J. D. Vance come steel class america New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction. Walter Gropius glass new construction steel «23456789101112