Quotes About Labor

but I wish my labors to be fairly rewarded.

Hay muchas cosas que me gustan, pero nada reemplaza al trabajo".

Le plus heureux des hommes serait celui qui, possédant la science de son labeur, et travaillant de ses mains, puisant le bien-être et la liberté dans l'exercice de sa force intelligente, aurait le temps de vivre par le cur et par le cerveau, de comprendre son uvre et d'aimer celle de Dieu.

Le fossoyeur fit la cuisine et la fit fort bien. Il

Le sillon du laboureur ne vaut-il pas celui de l'oisif qui a pourtant un nom, un nom qui restera si, par une singularité ou une absurdité quelconque, il fait un peu de bruit dans le monde ?…

Labor to keep alive in your breaks that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

What is scandalous isn't the pit explosion, it's working in coalmines. 'Social problems' aren't 'a matter of concern' when there's a strike, they are intolerable twenty-four hours out of twenty-four, three hundred and sixty-five days a year.

Qui ne travaille pas ne mange pas, certes, mais qui travaille ne vit plus.

I'm beginning to wish you had to work for a living.

Their clothes were drab and they had to work hard all day. But they kept fit that way, and slept well.

When he saw that they knew him, the man turned his back and began to work again.

I worked my butt off.

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex. Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them.

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.

I worked odd jobs delivering pizza, folding chairs, telemarketing, selling kitchen cutlery door to door.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

My dad? He worked at a steel plant over in Charleston. Night shift. Nine at night to nine in the morning, no joke.

As a little boy, my first job was delivering newspapers, and then I had a variety of different jobs. I worked in a butcher shop. I worked in a supermarket. I worked in construction. I dug ditches on the Long Island Expressway in 1954, 1955, 1956.

Well, I never worked a real job.

I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor, Public Welfare Committee, and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss, Bill Hathaway, and Walter Mondale.

I'm a worker bee.

The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.