Labor Quotes · Page 15

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

— Peter Jackson

Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.

— Laura Esquivel

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

— Abraham Lincoln

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

— Benjamin Franklin

Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wonder if the clothes in China say, 'Made around the corner.'

— Avan Nathan

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

— Meridel Le Sueur

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

— Harold Wilson

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in…

— Karl Marx

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

— Kailash Satyarthi

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of…

— Mark Twain

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do…

— Jimmy Smits

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

— Flea

Imagine the National Guard being called against a group of peaceful people. How far can we get; how disgraceful can it become?…

— Cesar Chavez

The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade,…

— Martin Luther

“For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for…

— Michael Pollan

It's time to update our workplace policies to reflect the realities of the 21st-century labor force and to support modern working families.…

— Tom Perez

Imagine what might happen if women emerged from their labor beds with a renewed sense of the strength and power of their…

— Christiane Northrup

The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very…

— Noam Chomsky

Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the…

— Erma Bombeck

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of…

— Frederic Bastiat

It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization…

— Marcus Garvey

The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of…

— George Inness

O God, I confess I am not worthy to rock that little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with…

— Elisabeth Elliot

The South was at the point where the scale was tipping against slavery. It was slowly dawning on the plantation owners that…

— John Coleman

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon…

— Jurgen Habermas

All that serves labor serves the Nation. All ^ that harms labor is treason to America. No line can be drawn between…

— Abraham Lincoln

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor…

— Bell Hooks

The question is not whether we wish to see everybody as well off as possible. Among men of good will such an…

— Henry Hazlitt

“When in a state of hunger, one ought not to undertake labor.”

— Hippocrates

The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

— William Shakespeare

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

— William Cowper

When you choose your fields of labor go where nobody else is willing to go.

— Mary Lyon

There is no liberation without labor...and there is no freedom which is free.

— Anonymous

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

— Jane Austen

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

— A. C. Benson

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

— Sam Levenson