Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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.

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

Adam Smith

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

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

Labor is in some pretty tough rapids right now.

Ella Wilcox

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

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,

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

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.

When you put it all together you get what you have now, a tight labor market but no wage inflation. We are in a whole new territory.

may end up importing labor from other producing regions.

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

Confucius

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

Donald Johanson

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

We are not confirming it until laboratory tests come out.

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

Frits Zernike

About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.

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.

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.

Dolores Huerta

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

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

Ann Patchett

Fiction is always really a labor.

Anais Nin

To love and to labor is the sum of living.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor humanizes, exalts.

C. Wright Mills

[A]s a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things , more handle people and symbols .