Labor Quotes

1710 Labor quotes by 1075 unique authors

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that… — Ina May Gaskin
Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover,… — Ina May Gaskin
When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war… — Wayne Muller
The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person. — Betsy Lerner
What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who… — Charlie LeDuff
Those who think govern those who labor. — Marshall Sylver
Volunteers are the backbone, heart, and soul of the restoration movement. And whatever the eventual results of their labors may be, working to revive damaged… — William K. Stevens
There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided… — Charles Guggenheim
Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re… — Bill Gates
Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money. — Abraham Lincoln
The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every authentic poem contributes to the labor of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... Poetry can repair no… — John Berger
Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. — L. Tom Perry
A small group had concentrated into their own hands an almost complete control over other people's property, other people's money, other people's labor - other… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering… — George Orwell
God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is… — Arthur Miller
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us — Abraham Lincoln
A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union.… — Eric Liu
The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them common… — John F. Kennedy
Some relaxation is necessary to people of every degree; the head that thinks and the hand that labors, must have some little time to recruit… — Bernard Gilpin
All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on… — Derrick Jensen
Today I will surrender to discipline. I realize that sometimes it takes time to see the fruits of my labors, yet I still need to… — Melody Beattie
Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend? — Ronald Reagan
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. — Thomas Merton
There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of… — Martin Puryear

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