Quotes About Livelihood

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

To own your life is hardly good Unless you own your livelihood: To own your livelihood's as bad If, in exchange, your life is had.

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellowman, either by a considerable gift, or a sum of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood, and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and the summit of charity's golden ladder.

They taught us to manage money and how to et a good price for our eggs, chickens or pigs. We used to know how to do that -- we weren't dumb; but since we never had any surplus, we had no money to manage. The only money we ever saw went right past us; no sooner had we earned a few cents than they were spent on aspirin . . . those kinds of things.

We could live offa the fatta the lan'.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

Fella had a team of horses, had to use'em to plow an' cultivate an' mow, wouldn't think a turnin' 'em out to starve when they wasn't workin'. Them's horses - we're men.

Well, we all got to make a livin'. Yeah, Tom said. On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else.

The family met at the most important place, near the truck. The house was dead, and the fields were dead; but this truck was the active thing, the living principle.

Well, we all got to make a livin'.'' "Yeah,'' Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else.

I get to do some kind of artwork almost everyday and it just so happens that I can pay the bills and support my family while doing it.

Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.

Business is the salt of life

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck.

A man will not believe something that his livelihood depends on his not believing.

One of the fundamental ways man adapts is to acquire and possess property. It is how he makes his home, finds or grows food, makes clothing, and generally improves his life. Private property is not an artificial construct. It is endemic to human nature and survival.

Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.