Avocation Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

• When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African… — John Henrik Clarke
• The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley
• There are more 'Don'ts' in golf than there are in any other avocation in life. — Arnold Haultain
• What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to… — Aldo Leopold
• If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base… — Milton Friedman
• The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. — Nelson Algren
• There is no business, no avocation, whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to… — Daniel Albert Wyttenbach
• For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life. — Wynn Bullock
• In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked… — Alfred North Whitehead
• Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity. — Elsa Maxwell
• The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions… — William Osler
• My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight. — Robert Frost
• All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been… — Eugene Field
• The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation. — H. L. Mencken
• Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. — Phyllis McGinley

Who Wrote These Avocation Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 Avocation Quotes as follows:

• 2 Avocation Quotes by Phyllis McGinley
• 1 Avocation Quote by Arnold Haultain
• 1 Avocation Quote by Aldo Leopold
• 1 Avocation Quote by Milton Friedman
• 1 Avocation Quote by Nelson Algren
• 1 Avocation Quote by Daniel Albert Wyttenbach
• 1 Avocation Quote by Wynn Bullock
• 1 Avocation Quote by Alfred North Whitehead
• 1 Avocation Quote by Elsa Maxwell
• 1 Avocation Quote by William Osler
• 1 Avocation Quote by Robert Frost
• 1 Avocation Quote by Eugene Field
• 1 Avocation Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Avocation Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Avocation Quote by John Henrik Clarke