Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anais Nin

To love and to labor is the sum of living.

Thomas Jefferson

A mind always employed is always happy.

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Maybe it's just symbolic, but to me this is the day for labor and this is the day I'm proud to be a striking member.

Get us the cargo, and we'll get you the labor.

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Thomas Graham

If it wasn't for union workers and labor unions, there would be no 40-hour work weeks, eight-hour work days, pensions or vacations,

Robert Kraft

If that's what they say, I will say this: I'd want him to represent my side in labor negotiations. The players should be thanking him. Actually, they should be genuflecting.

If we do not drastically change, there will be no labor movement in this country,

I have labor pains right now -- I'm pregnant with all this stuff.

George W. Romney

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

may end up importing labor from other producing regions.

We have some of the weakest labor laws in the industrialized world.

Horace

It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.

Overall, the labor market is improving, but progress is still slow,

We'll pick up trash first. If labor is available, we'll do more.

We have the labor. What we're going to need is the materials.

We are making arrangements to sell everything. The idea is to pay mortgage holders off (and) get as much money as I can to people who supplied labor and material.

We know a lot of people have put their Labor Day plans on hold.

Dolores Huerta

I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.

Frederick Law Olmsted

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

This shows the labor market in not overheated. And you can see that in, yes, not a lot of people are getting raises.

We always offer bidding and we are always open to union labor.

We're treading water today. With most of Wall Street on vacation, I think that's all we'll be doing until after Labor Day.