We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work. — Brian Kilmeade Copy Share Image
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Sounds like a thankless job. Sometimes the most important ones are.” — Regina Jennings Copy Share Image
“it’s a thankless job, telling people it’s a hard, hard Universe they’re in.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself. — Katie Roiphe Copy Share Image
Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“But waiting tables, in some ways, still goes down as the hardest. Certainly the most thankless. Which” — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
“Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.” — Ana Monnar Copy Share Image
A mother does a thankless job; they take care of their children unconditionally. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've… — Kyra Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man! — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and… — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Alan," cried I, "what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?" Deed, and I… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Indeed, I should be very stupid or very thankless if I did not congratulate myself every hour of the day on the… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think being a doctor is really hard, and it's really this thankless, never-ending job. It's not even that you get done… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
I mean, full stops are quite important, aren't they? Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I value in the cat the independent and almost ungrateful spirit which prevents her from attaching herself to any one, the indifference… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I started volunteering at an animal shelter, and little by little, my life started getting better. I think that is the secret.… — William McNamara Copy Share Image
Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers. — David Hemmings Copy Share Image
What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
