Quotes About Labor

he'd experienced the lovely warm feeling of a bad job well done.

Her sister carried with her most of the grimness of shift and toil.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

I sympathize with every kitchen porter.

Because women get more labor rights than men, meaning they get maternity leave, the employer prefers to hire men.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.

The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

We live in a country that has profited for hundreds of years off the labor of individuals without having to pay for it.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

If you labor heavily upon a work of art, then part of what you are saying is, 'This is a heavy work of art.' If you happen to be trying to say something about lightness, then the art should be light as well.

I'm an entrepreneur trying to let the American people know that it's not immigrants that are causing economic problems, it is the fact that our economy is advancing in ways that is making human labor less and less essential.

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

With River's birth, nothing went according to plan. My water broke three weeks early, and after 12 hours of labor and Pitocin, I was in incredible pain and still only one-centimeter dilated.

The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.

Equal pay for equal work is a fundamental concept of labor agreements.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.

Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.

I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something.

In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.

To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Labor, no matter how inexpensive, will become a less important asset for growth and employment expansion, with labor-intensive, process-oriented manufacturing becoming a less effective way for early-stage developing countries to enter the global economy.