Quotes about Work

There needs to be a homemaker exercising some measure of skill, imagination, creativity, desire to fulfill needs and give pleasure to others in the family. How precious a thing is the human family. It it not worth some sacrifice in time, energy, safety, discomfort, work? Does anything come forth without work?

Hang by your thumbs, everybody! Write if you get work!

Traveler: "God has been mighty good to your fields, Mr. Farmer." Farmer: "You should have seen how he treated them when I wasn't around."

Give us Lord, a bit o' sun, A bit o' work and a bit o' fun; Give us all in the struggle and sputter Our daily bread and a bit o' butter.

Take out the papers and the trashOr you don't get no spending cash;If you don't scrub that kitchen floor,You ain't gonna rock 'n' roll no more.Yakety yak, don't talk back.

But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet… but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

The entire land sets out to work,All beasts browse on their herbs;Trees, herbs are sprouting,Birds fly from their nests…Ships fare north, fare south as well,Roads lie open when you rise;The fish in the river dart before you,Your rays are in the midst of the sea.

John Henry told his captain,Says, "A man ain't nothin' but a man,And before I'd let your steam drill beat me down, Lord,I'd die with this hammer in my hand."

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.

The laborer is worthy of his hire.