L Quotes
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“Labor builds us in ways that games and gyms can't.
When you build a house, you have both a house and a builder.
When you plant a garden, you have fruits and vegetables,
and a gardener, too.
When you teach, if you remain open to your students
and discovery itself,
you have a lifetime of learning.
When you tend to someone,
you build your own empathy and compassion.”
“Labor came to humanity with the fall from grace and was at best a penitential sacrifice enabling purity through humiliation. Laborwas toil, distress, trouble, fatigue--an exertion both painful and compulsory. Labor was our animal condition, struggling to survive in dirt and darkness.”
“Labor can and will become its own employer through co-operative association.”
Source: Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...
“Labor Day honors the dignity of work and the enduring contributions of working people. It is dedicated to no single man, sect, or class, but to the tireless collective efforts of all who, through sweat, skill, and sacrifice, strive to build a better world—for ourselves, our children, and generations yet to come.”
“Labor Day is a day to recognize the dignity of work and the contributions of working people to our society. Dedicated to no single man, sect or class, Labor Day celebrates the tireless collective efforts of all individuals striving to make our nation a better place for us, our children, and future generations. The farmer and the businessperson, the civil servant and the private sector worker, the state officers, all the workers..... let us honor their selfless service irrespective of their class or background.”
“Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.”
“Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.”
“Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.”
“Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.”
Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Labor Day. We could hear their bellow and grind from the Route 19 overpass. Below, the river gleamed like a flaw in metal. Leaving the parking lot behind, we billy-goated down the fisherman's trail, one by one, the way all mountain people do. Loud clumps of bees clustered in the fireweed and boneset, and the trail underfoot crunched with cans, condom wrappers, worm containers. A half-buried coal bucket rose from the dirt with a galvanized grin. The laurel hell wove itself into a tunnel, hazy with gnats. There, a busted railroad spike. The smell of river water filled our noses.”
Source: Allegheny Front
“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.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“Labor & delivery is measured in hours. Birth is a moment. Being a parent is the rest of your life.”
Source: Becoming a Dad: The First-Time Dad's Guide to Pregnancy Preparation (101 Tips For Expectant Dads)
“Labor diligently to increase your property.”
“Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.”
“Labor for a lot of people has a negative connotation. But not for me. I always want to be working.”
“Labor force needs and economic conditions are disregarded in our policies. Many aspects of our current policies and procedures are patently wrong. For example, legal immigration has almost no link to U.S. employment needs or economic conditions.”
“Labor gives birth to ideas.”
“Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by Wilson's Red Scare, but it dramatically revived in the 1930s. It spearheaded the social-democratic New-Deal style changes which were beneficial to the country - not sufficient, but beneficial. That could happen again.”
“Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.”
“Labor has four parts to celebrate:
work, rest from work,
appreciation of the work done (yours and others),
and the recognition of how your work
has shaped you.
When you build a house, you have both a house and a builder.
When you plant a garden, you have plants
and a gardener, too.
When you teach, if you remain open to the discovery itself,
you have a lifetime of learning.
Engage with the world and it will hone you,
more connected, more able to love all the world,
including all the hard parts.”
“Labor humanizes, exalts.”
Source: Table-talk
“Labor in loneliness is irksome.”
Source: The Innocents Abroad
“Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.”
“Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.”
“Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.”
Source: A Discourse, Delivered at Plymouth, December 22, 1820. In Commemoration of the First Settlement of New-England. ...
“Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.”
“Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
“Labor is cheap, friends are expensive, but sons are priceless.”
“Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.”
Source: The Works of William E. Channing
“Labor is getting more expensive and technology is getting cheaper.”
“Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth;
Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth;
Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.”
Source: Poems ... Illustrated by ... Darley, etc
“Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!”
Source: Past and Present
“Labor is life; thought is light.”
“Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.”
“Labor is no disgrace.”
“Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie-labor is fighting for a larger pie.”
“Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
“Labor is really going to hurt.”
“Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill”
“Labor is rest--from the sorrow that greet us;
Rest from all petty vexations that meet us,
Rest from sin-promptings that ever entreat us,
Rest from the world-sirens that hire us to ill.
Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow;
Work--thou shalt ride over Care's coming billow;
Lie not down wearied 'neath Woe's weeping willow!
Work with a stout heart and resolute will!”
“Labor is service and service is life. And when we serve something more than ourselves, we feel alive.”
“Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.”
Source: Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
“Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.”
“Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.”
“Labor is the divine law of our existence.”
Source: Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini...
“Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.”
“Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.”
“Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.”
Source: Leadership Lessons of Abraham Lincoln: Apply the Principles of the Sixteenth President to Your Own Work and Life
“Labor is the handmaid of religion.”