These Scaffold quotes will inspire you. Scaffolding, also called scaffold or staging, is a temporary structure used to support a work crew and materials to aid in the construction, maintenance, and repair of buildings, bridges, and all other man-made structures.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Scaffold quotes, Scaffold sayings, and Scaffold proverbs.
Best Scaffold Quotes
- “And the kitty kat would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn’t put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling.” ~ Louise Rennison
- “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.” ~ Annie Dillard
- “Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.” ~ Gerald Fischbach
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“You can’t build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals” ~ Ian Paisley
- “Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.” ~ Benito Mussolini
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“Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “When all the scaffolding is removed it is our integrity that both defines us and identifies us. Men of integrity are like the Rock of Gibraltar – steadfast and immovable; men without it are like the shifting sands on the Sahara Desert – tossed to and fro by every variant wind of life.” ~ Tad R. Callister
- “I don’t really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there’s scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.” ~ Kellan Lutz
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“A simile is just a metaphor with the scaffolding still up.” ~ James Geary
- “And lastly, when other things in life get tough, when you’re going through family troubles, when you’re heartbroken, when you’re frustrated with money problems, focus on your work. It has saved me through every single difficult thing I have ever had to do, like a scaffolding that goes far beyond any traditional notions of a career.” ~ Teresita Fernandez
- “I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.” ~ Alain de Botton
- “The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I’m writing about topics I find interesting, so I can’t gripe too much.” ~ Neal Stephenson
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“Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.” ~ Stephen Covey
- “We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can’t see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can’t see the very small, we can’t see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve.” ~ Jason Silva
- “The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.” ~ Cornelia Otis Skinner
- “There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child’s box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.” ~ Oswald Chambers
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“Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.” ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
- “If this really is true, then greed really isn’t good, after all. It really isn’t the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn’t always the problem. It’s sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they’d rather deny the science.” ~ Naomi Klein
- “The story is everything, so it always begins with a story.And research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I’m writing about topics I find interesting, so I can’t gripe too much.” ~ Neal Stephenson
- “Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“I won’t walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.” ~ Lauren Groff
- “Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.” ~ Primo Levi
- “I’m not a sculptor; I’m a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from ‘Star Wars’ – especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.” ~ Adam Savage
- “One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.” ~ J. E. H. MacDonald
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“Just saw an orthodox Jewish kid do 3 pull-ups on the scaffolding. Shattering the previous record.” ~ Gary Gulman
- “Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it’s said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be inverted. The journeys we make during the reading of a book trace out, in some way, the private spaces we inhabit. There are texts that will always be our dead-end streets; fragments that will be bridges; words that will be like the scaffolding that protects fragile constructions.” ~ Valeria Luiselli
- “The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.” ~ Flannery O’Connor
- “In the business world, there are systems and processes for just about everything else. Yet creativity and innovation, arguably THE most important aspects of progress, are often left to happen by chance. The system provides a scaffolding for creative support and exploration, yet is open enough to avoid curbing creativity or outputting cookie-cutter solutions.” ~ Josh Linkner
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“All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.” ~ Geraldine Brooks
- “My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the so-called Ca del Duca, a princely foundation, on which later the most wretched tenement came to be built. With me it’s the opposite: the beautiful arched elevations of my spirit rest on the most tentative beginning; a wooden scaffolding, a few boards….Is that why I feel inhibited in raising the nave, the tower to which the weight of the great bells is to be hoisted (by angels, who else could do it)?” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “The university is one of various funding structures by which people who want to do theoretical work stay alive, the same way that people go to grad school, not because they think it’s going to change the world but because there’s no patron system anymore, and they need some scaffolding of support while they’re trying to figure out how they can proceed in their lives. I think that’s utterly legit. A lot of our better theorists and thinkers, that’s what the university is for them.” ~ Joshua Clover
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“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.” ~ Annie Dillard
- “The problem is we’re looking for something that doesn’t exist. We’re looking for authenticity. There is no such thing as authenticity. There is either good art or bad art. Art is never about its content. It’s about its scaffolding.” ~ Chris Abani
- “I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn’t folded, I’d probably still be scaffolding and loving it.” ~ Jamie Sives
- “It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and repulsion, from the general laws of motion.” ~ Thomas Huxley
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“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.” ~ Annie Dillard
- “Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building was completed.” ~ Frederick Douglass
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“Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you cannot build the house without them.” ~ Constance Fenimore Woolson
- “To write rhythmic prose one must go deep into oneself and find the anonymous and multiple rhythm of the blood. Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There, one is truly without a name, without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one’s consciousness.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
- “To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.” ~ Arthur Honegger
