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Quotes About Livelihood

As long as I can write songs, make a record and do concerts, I'm really quite happy.
~ Gilbert O'Sullivan
I want to travel around the country and make my living playing music. I also try to behave in a way that I would appreciate as a music fan. That's how we conduct ourselves, be it in writing music or playing it live.
~ Buzz Osborne
I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.
~ Leonard Baskin
Jimmy Boggs was born in a little town called Marion Junction, Alabama, where there were as many pigs, or more pigs, than even the people. But you know what? People in the South had an understanding that you could make a way out of no way, and that's how they survived.
~ Grace Lee Boggs
My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.
~ Oliver Sim
It is crucial to bridge the critical gap between manpower availability and employability by providing sustainable livelihood opportunities for all to grow and prosper.
~ Chanda Kochhar
I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
~ Kamisese Mara
Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
~ Charles Dickens
I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.
~ Brian Stokes Mitchell
Agriculture is the backbone of the livelihood security system of nearly 700 million people in the country and we need to build our food security on the foundation of home grown food.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
The system has for its object an increase of persons that are to intervene between the producer and the consumer, living on the product of the land and labour of others, diminishing the power of the first, and increasing the number of the last.
~ Henry Charles Carey
I have had a very difficult time with stage fright it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.
~ Renee Fleming
Like doctors, lawyers, plumbers, and many others, I get my income from the necessities, the tribulations, and the misfortunes of my fellow beings.
~ Rex Stout
It takes a gross of at least ten thousand a month to get by.
~ Rex Stout
Aldred was not shocked. He continued the discussion without pause. "On the other hand," he said, "your peasants are serfs, who need the permission of their lord to marry, change their way of making a living, or move to another
~ Ken Follett
Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.
~ Robin McKinley
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
~ Willie Nelson
Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.
~ Winston Churchill
California is a garden of EdenA paradise to live in or seeBut believe it or notYou won't find it so hotIf you ain't got the do-re-mi
~ Woody Guthrie
Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living.
~ Xenophon
I recall my Romani friend who drives from village to village to offer his services to potential clients and who claims, when asked about his origin, to be Irish or Italian. 'I make a living by denying who I am,' he says.
~ Yaron Matras
One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
~ Jeannette Walls
Can you milk 'em? If you can't milk 'em, they're pets!
~ Jeff Smith
I held on to those other sources of income for so long because I never wanted to burden my writing with the responsibility of paying for my life.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert