Quotes About Livelihood

The trade is chiefly with Madagascar: the houses are richly furnished with furniture, dishes from India, &c. At Garaganza there are hundreds of Arab traders, there too all fruits abound, and the climate is healthy, from its elevation. Why cannot we missionaries imitate these Arabs in living on heights?

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

I've played a lot of parts. But I don't look at my feeling is that this is a job. It's given me a good living.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

Finally, the ecological health of the Mississippi River and its economic importance to the many people that make their living or seek their recreation is based on a healthy river system.

If you don't have jobs, it's hard to have other things like health and education.

There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at risk.

I think that, for me, my favorite thing to do is perform standup onstage. Everything else I do is for the exposure to do more stand-up onstage, and for the money, and for the health insurance.

I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

My home has always been show business.

Think I have made a terrible mistake going to college. Have decided to become a shepherd and spend my days tending to flocks of goats

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and "the public's right to know"; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

They call this place a farm — but no farmer could possibly make a living from it these days, no matter how hard he worked.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

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.

I didn't really see a way to make a living on the farm. I always loved writing. I was the guy who won the D.A.R. essay contest and things like that, and it was the era of Watergate, and I decided I would be the next Woodward and Bernstein, and then retire to the farm.