Richard Serra Quotes

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.

I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.

I was never afraid to go back to Pittsburgh and work in the steel mills.

As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.

The Ford Motor Company, the greatest and most successful automobile manufacturing company in the world, will, on January 12, inaugurate the greatest revolution in the matter of rewards for its workers in the industrial world. At one stroke, it will reduce the hours of labor from 9 to 8, and add to every man’s pay a share of the profits of the house. The smallest to be received by a man 22 years old and upward was $5 a day.

We don't want people working in fast-food stands. We want them back in the steel mills.

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.

I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.

I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

My grandfather and dad worked at General American Transportation Corp. in Chicago, a company that made tank cars and freight cars. We had a pragmatic, Republican, manufacturing, Illinois consciousness as far as employment went.