Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ulysses Grant

Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.

S. Walker

Having been there - I repeat, having been there - I do not wish jail for any person. I really feel sorry for George and his family. ... I wish no man to have that and no man to have that disgrace that I had.

Michael McDermott

That's a disgrace that they couldn't even get his name right. It's a slap in the face.

Lauro Baja

The two are a disgrace to the Philippines, the Filipino people, and Filipino peacekeepers who are proudly serving in United Nations missions worldwide,

Butch Goncharoff

It was not our year. It happens. It was Prosser's day. We kept fighting right up until the last play. There's no disgrace in that.

Hesiod

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

Hesiod

Labor is no disgrace.

Steven Aftergood

A lot of what we think we know of our recent history may be mistaken, ... It is a disgrace that it should be so in a democracy, but it is.

Mark Harmon

I was raised with the idea of maximum effort: as long as you could look in the mirror and say, 'I gave it everything I had,' it was OK. But if you gave it less, that would disgrace you.

Ella Wilcox

Here, on this side of the grave,Here, should we labor and love.

Michael Wasserman

I think it's a tremendous help. You've got people of all walks of life who are represented by labor unions. I think that's tremendous when you have that kind of support.

Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.

Will Rogers

Labor Day, I suppose set by an Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us.

William Graham Sumner

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

Charles M. Schwab

In my own house, I rigged up a laboratory and studied chemistry in the evenings, determined that there should be nothing in the manufacture of steel that I would not know.

Richard Berthelsen

If there is no union, the labor laws would not apply, so you wouldn't have a lockout.

Ashley Jones

I'm really proud of an independent movie called 'Angel's Perch' that you can get now on demand. It's a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it's a beautiful film.

John Wilmot

I'm sorry to see it happen. But who is going to stay in Marina on Labor Day (weekend) to watch a parade?