Quotes About Construction Workers

#1. (One day, somebody had predicted, Earth would have a ring like Saturn's, composed entirely of lost bolts, fasteners, and even tools that had escaped from careless orbital construction workers.)

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.

Brad Pitt

#3. I smiled, reached into my pockets and pulled out a pair of ultrapowerful earplugs, the kind that are standard issue for skyway construction workers, artillery soldiers, and roadies for the thirty-five most popular teen boy bands.

John Zakour

#4. Businessmen learn the way businessmen are supposed to be. Professors learn the way professors are supposed to be. Construction workers learn how construction workers are supposed to be. They spend their lives trying to be what they're supposed to be and being scared they aren't. Quiet desperation.

Robert B. Parker

#5. I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

Tamara Feldman

#6. Ninety per cent of my family are hairdressers, and the other 10% are construction workers.

Alessia Cara

#7. I was walking down the street the other day and these construction workers were working on the roof hammering away. One of them told me I was a paranoid lunatic ... in morse code.

Emo Philips

#8. President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, 'Oh, you'll see.'

Jimmy Fallon

#9. I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers.

Bill Shorten

#10. Four construction workers sit around four greasy bowls in silence. The cook, an old man who died several days ago, has been allowed to rot on his stool. The single round light is dappled with the bodies of dead insects, and the walls are decorated with spatters and dribbles of grease.

David Mitchell

#11. Her head felt like miniature construction workers had taken up residence. Along with jackhammers and pneumatic drills, they were now whistling at passing women and yelling "Hey, baby!" She made the pledge of hung-over idiots everywhere: I'm never drinking again.

Kate Meader

#12. I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

Eartha Kitt

#13. When you are a mature woman, the wolf-whistles from construction workers stop, and that's a scary thing.

Arianne Richmonde

#14. Everything about video games has changed. The writing, the acting, the visuals, obviously - everything has gone to a new level. And the difference that I see as an actor is that I don't have to push that extra bit to sell what's going on.

Jennifer Hale

#15. Just stop at one of these construction sites and look and see who those workers are. They're all Hispanic, ... And I bet you they're illegal.

John McCain

#16. We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.

Thomas Marshburn

#17. Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities - yet, for all we know, it might be the greatest of all blessings.

Steve Hagen

#18. I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

Michelle Monaghan

#19. Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector.

Charles B. Rangel

#20. They see me as an ordinary guy, like a construction worker or the guy who delivers your piano

Clark Gable

#21. In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

Sun Yat-sen

#22. Be ready for huge failures to achieve huge success,
Be receptive for criticism. It can be constructive too.!

Harsh Malik

#23. Because I lived in construction towns, we had a lot of workers who came from the South. They were all white, and, sorry to say, a number of them were pretty redneck.

Tom Brokaw

#24. I have a carpool with a corrections officer and a construction worker. My kids get to see that we're not segregated based on wealth or standing. It's very cool.

Mark Ruffalo

#25. Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

Amy Tan

#26. We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverse
knowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanent
construction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, social
exposure).

Lisa Adkins

#27. In 1968, the situation at Harvard was not one of which we can be proud. In that year, the proportion of minority persons in salary and wage positions was approximately 3 per cent. Virtually no minority workers were employed on Harvard construction projects.

Derek Bok

#28. Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.

Claudio Abbado

#29. When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

Orhan Pamuk