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Quotes About Union

Since the announcement that Boeing was going to open a plant in Charleston, South Carolina, Boeing has actually created 2,000 new jobs in Washington state. So it's hard to say you are retaliating against the union when you create 2,000 members to their role.
~ Alan Wilson
I used to drive up from theatre in Michigan to Stratford, Ontario to watch every show. I idolized the actors from Stratford. I was very influenced by them because they would come down and work at my theatre and get time on their American Equity union cards.
~ Robert Englund
We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Employers will work you longer for less money and under questionable safety conditions because it is their duty to prioritize the bottom line. As individuals, we cannot complain. That's why we need a union to speak for us, certainly when our safety, our health, and our very lives are at stake!
~ Haskell Wexler
Our destiny is as a global beacon of free trade and we cannot deliver that while bound to the declining E.U. and its protectionist Customs Union.
~ Priti Patel
We're planning on being married for a long, long time.
~ Nick Lachey
My parents' marriage was, on an aesthetic level, very pleasing to behold.
~ Lisa Jewell
May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
I've never seen the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
~ Michael Heisley
The Commission is extremely important. The E.U. without the Commission would not be the European Union.
~ Miroslav Lajcak
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.
~ Rebecca West
There are no tears here," the young construction worker said at the funeral, when the ancient union leader, with two strokes, three heart attacks, and a lung condition, died at last. "True," the priest said, surveying the mourners in the cathedral. "No tears. Either the wake went on too long or he was a hard, hard man.
~ Renata Adler
To the contrary" is what the head of the mine workers' union said when he was asked whether he had ordered the murder of a rival and his family. It is hard to know what to the contrary of ordering a murder might, exactly, mean. Jim thinks ordering a birth, perhaps, or else a resurrection.
~ Renata Adler
Spiritual life flows out of union with Christ, not merely imitation of Christ.
~ Richard F. Lovelace
In fact, Herman never resolves satisfactorily why this achievement should have happened in the particular society of Scotland, so small and backward. The nearest he comes is to argue that, after union with England in 1707, Scottish intellectuals had to cope with the challenge, today common, of "deal[ing] with a dominant culture that one admired but that threatened to overwhelm one's own heritage and oneself with it.
~ Richard Gwyn
Back in Brooklyn, a poet-nurse to the Union dying writes: A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
~ Richard Powers
If the mystery of the Trinity is the template of all reality, what we have in the Trinitarian God is the perfect balance between union and differentiation, autonomy and mutuality, identity and community.
~ Richard Rohr
The saint is precisely one who has no "I" to protect or project. His or her "I" is in conscious union with the "I AM" of God, and that is more than enough. Divine
~ Richard Rohr
The archetypal idea of "home" points in two directions at once. It points backward toward an original hint and taste for union, starting in the body of our mother.
~ Richard Rohr
And it points forward, urging us toward the realization that this hint and taste of union might actually be true. It guides us like an inner compass or a "homing" device.
~ Richard Rohr
want to propose that we are both sent and drawn by the same Force, which is precisely what Christians mean when they say the Cosmic Christ is both alpha and omega. We are both driven and called forward by a kind of deep homesickness, it seems. There is an inherent and desirous dissatisfaction that both sends and draws us forward, and it comes from our original and radical union with God. What appears to be past and future is in fact the same home, the same call, and the same God
~ Richard Rohr
Home is another word for the Spirit that we are, our True Self in God. The self-same moment that we find God in ourselves, we also find ourselves inside God, and this is the full homecoming, according to Teresa of Avila.
~ Richard Rohr
How can anyone read the whole or even a small part of John 17 and think either Christ or Jesus is about anything other than unity and union? "Father, may they all be one," Christ says in verse 21, repeating this same desire and intention in many ways in the full prayer. I suspect God gets what God prays for!
~ Richard Rohr