Quotes About Livelihood

I've been drinking goat's milk and went to see the doctor. Quite a living they make from me, the doctors! They should all drop dead and take the pharmacist with them.

You must understand something, Mr Thompson. What I do has nothing to do with the money or the bricks and steel that make a building. It's the people who matter. I'm able to give them a comfortable place to work or to live, a place where they can raise families and have decent lives. That's what was important to my father, and it became important to me.

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living

I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

James Remar is a student of life. I'm expressing myself by acting. I'm learning about myself and making a living.

Being on stage makes me come to life. When all eyes are on you, they're watching every move you make.

I lived in the city of light for 4 years 10 months, the generosity of sacred souls sustain my livelihood.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.

The way I see it, no one in this country should work full-time and still live in poverty—period.

Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

What, in a given country, is the lowest possible wage? It is the price of that which is considered by the proletarians of that country as absolutely necessary to keep oneself alive.

We are, no doubt, accustomed to connect the notion of value rather with things believed in, than with the beliefs of which they are the subjects. A fine symphony, an heroic deed, a good dinner, an assured livelihood, have admitted values. But what values can we attribute to beliefs and judgments, except in so far as they are aids and instruments for obtaining valuable objects?

Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.

Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence.

I could have been banned. That's what I was most scared about. All the hard work being for nothing. It was basically my livelihood and my sport being taken away from me. It was everything.

No one who works a full-time job should live in poverty. It's that simple. We must stand on the side of hard-working Americans.

Most people prefer living in a healthier town.

I still enjoy the heck out of getting up there to play shows every night.

I said. 'It seems to me that when you take a man's money away he's fit for nothing from that moment.' 'No, not necessarily. If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can still keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, 'I'm a free man in HERE''—he tapped his forehead—'and you're all right.

Given a good pitch and the right amount of capital, any educated person ought to be able to make a small secure living out of a bookshop

you do not escape from money by being moneyless. On the contrary, you are the hopeless slave of money until you have enough of it to live on