Labor Quotes · Page 17

The existence of Labor Day is an attack on success.

— Anonymous

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

— Mark Twain

“son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be”

— Og Mandino

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

— Samuel Gompers

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The life of labor does not make men, but drudges.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A working class hero is something to be.

— John Lennon

“no labor is really menial unless you’re not getting adequate wages.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop…

— Lissie

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

— PJ Harvey

No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America.

— Marc Veasey

I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the…

— Jacob Hashimoto

“Every cigar rolled by hand carries the pressure of labor, the signature of culture, and the shadow of politics.”

— Sebastian Saviano

Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor.

— George Eliot

There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration…

— John Henry Newman

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

— Flea

Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the…

— Paul Craig Roberts

Here is a guy who's supposed to be the Genghis Khan of the church, the pro-choice people hate him, and I don't…

— Nat Hentoff

It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the…

— Meridel Le Sueur

But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as…

— Winifred Holtby

While strength and years permit, endure labor; soon bent old age will come with silent foot. [Lat., Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate…

— Ovid

We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a…

— Peter J. McGuire

The Bible says that in the last days that it will be like labor pains. As a woman is ready to give…

— Greg Laurie

Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine’s mystery lies…

— Greg Brown

If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man…

— Anonymous

Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial…

— Walt Disney

If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a…

— Rafael Cruz

There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully…

— Tony Abbott

By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are…

— Gerolamo Cardano

Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges,…

— A. Philip Randolph

The error in positivism is that it takes as its standard of truth the contingently given division of labor, that between the…

— Theodor Adorno

I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on…

— Noam Chomsky

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."

— Harry Bridges

Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

— Dolores Huerta

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

— Henry David Thoreau

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

— Ishmael Reed

There is no law for farm labor organizing, save the law of the jungle.

— Cesar Chavez

I hope your Mother's Day is more pleasant than labor was.

— Anonymous

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

— Henry George

It’s often overlooked. It’s labor. That’s at the heart of # collaboration .

— Martin Scorsese