Profession Quotes · Page 65

Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

— William Shakespeare

A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession... The choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a…

— Vivian Gornick

I know what I am, and what I have to do in my profession, so I can handle the pressure. It's the…

— Michael Schumacher

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

— Ai Weiwei

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing…

— Koren Zailckas

We reach the point where our profession is also our hobby.

— Robert Anderson

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history…

— Alexander Herzen

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

— Edith Stein

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

— Will Rogers

Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and…

— Nickolas Muray

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

— Queen Elizabeth II

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and…

— Roger Sherman

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form…

— Kenneth Branagh

I went through a low phase for two years when I had a string of flops. At that time, I even felt…

— Randeep Hooda

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

— George Orwell

I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board…

— John Updike

There's lots of interesting jobs in the profession besides acting, and I like to try and keep an eye on and understand…

— Sarah Sutton

Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we…

— Howard Gardner

When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something…

— Paul Bloom

“Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert…

— Criss Jami

One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling,…

— Richard L. Evans

I enjoyed meeting Emma [Watson]. I have a soft spot in my heart for child actors growing up. I know how hard…

— Ethan Hawke