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Quotes About Livelihood

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.
~ William S. Burroughs
Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.
~ Florence Kelley
He hoped to find some new method of making a living and aspired to become a professional breeder of ferrets.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration
~ Shri Radhe Maa
We must not rest until right livelihood is within reach of every human being upon this earth we love and cherish. We all have a role to play in achieving this goal.
~ Agnivesh
I just love chickens.
~ Patti LuPone
I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.
~ Jewel
A lot of my buddies enjoy the writing part or the studio part, and I love the live show part. That's the reason I got into all this, to play keg parties and bars. I still love playing live.
~ Kevin Fowler
Playing live if the thing I love doing best
~ Bob Geldof
Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.
~ Dave Lombardo
It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.
~ Sebastian Bach
I love what I'm doing for a living.
~ Tony Gonzalez
Most of the Indians, particularly those living on the coasts and in the hotter climates, were given to unnatural lusts. To such a dreadful degree was this practised, that men even went about in female garments, and made a livelihood by their diabolical and cursed lewdness.
~ Bernal Diaz del Castillo
You can't live somewhere," he told me, "if the people don't want you to be there. They can kill our cattle or poison our streams, and we would never know who did it. You either slaughter them all or learn to live with them.
~ Bernard Cornwell
So long as small children could work in factories, they remained a source of livelihood to their parents until they died of overwork; but the Factory Acts put an end to this form of exploitation, in spite of the protests of those who lived on it. From being a means of livelihood, children came to be a financial burden. At this stage, contraceptives became known, and the fall in the birth-rate began. There
~ Bertrand Russell
The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge, from a purely utilitarian point of view, as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.
~ Bertrand Russell
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
~ Erica Jong
I love what I do for a living and even if I wasn't getting paid for it I would still pursue an active, outdoors lifestyle, researching animals and looking after them.
~ Steve Backshall
When my father saw that I was interested in following such a career he had many reservations. His feeling was that there was no chance to earn a livelihood unless I played jazz or something similar.
~ Julian Bream
Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
~ Carolyn McCarthy
You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion.
~ Bobby Womack
My husband, David Simon, and I make our livings using our imaginations.
~ Laura Lippman
I grew up on a farm, and I think I would have come back and done something like that. It's an honest way of life, a conservative way of life, simple way of life.
~ Dakota Meyer
My approach to housing is to treat it as an essential part of our communities, just like roads, waterlines or any other piece of infrastructure.
~ Kevin Faulconer