Social Worker Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need… — Jo Brand
If ever we needed in this country to adopt a new attitude towards homosexuality, this is the time. Instead of treating it as a crime,… — Tommy Douglas
Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a… — Mia Freedman
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the… — Kazuo Ishiguro
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and… — Laurance Labadie
I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics. — Alex Van Halen
We need a stronger national voice for social workers which leads to a change in how the profession is viewed and its ability to represent… — Andy Sawford
Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized… — Pamela Moore
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that… — Marilyn Johnson
There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over… — Alan Bennett
One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker. — Margaret Beckett
Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no… — Nina Bawden
All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And… — David Eddings
The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when… — Dan Rather
Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus… — Andy Sawford
In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so… — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox… — N. T. Wright
The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge. — Michel Foucault
Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped. — Elton John
For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is,… — Iris DeMent

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