Quotes About Labor

palace with massive pillars and many courtyards, and his word was law. All the people of Egypt had to toil for him if he so decreed. And sometimes he did.

I saw all the people hustling early in the morning to go into the factories and the stores and the office buildings, to do their job, to get their checks. But ultimately, it's not office buildings or jobs that give us our checks. It's the soil. The soil is what gives us the real income that supports us all.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

Output per worker in England did not increase at all between 1500 and 1800, according to the estimates by Angus Maddison in his 2006 volume The World Economy, a trusted source.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

The conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.

The afternoon arrived like an aggrieved trade unionist.

Especially riches pulled from the ground. Two-thirds of all American workers labored on farms, with sweat and muscle the only fuels. "There was no quittin' time and no startin' time," a folk proverb declared. "It was all the time.

It is one great purpose of the Park to supply to the hundreds of thousands of tired workers, who have no opportunity to spend their summers in the country, a specimen of God's handiwork that shall be to them, inexpensively, what a month or two in the White Mountains or the Adirondacks is, at great cost, to those in easier circumstances.

Though little, I'll work as hard as a Turk,If you'll give me employ,To plow and sow, and reap and mow,And be a farmer's boy.

Hewers of wood and drawers of water.

Man may work from sun to sun,But woman's work is never done.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet… but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

John Henry told his captain,Says, "A man ain't nothin' but a man,And before I'd let your steam drill beat me down, Lord,I'd die with this hammer in my hand."

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

The laborer is worthy of his hire.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Labor not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.

Consider that I labored not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.

I've been working on the railroadAll the livelong day,I've been working on the railroadTo pass the time away.Don't you hear the whistle blowing?Rise up so early in the morn.Don't you hear the captain shouting,"Dinah blow your horn."

It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped.

In all labor there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

If any would not work, neither should he eat.