Dolores Huerta Quotes

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

I have such pride in my job.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

I want to be happy going to work. I want to do a show I'm proud of.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

My grandparents back in Kentucky owned a tobacco farm. So, to make money in the summer, we could cut and chop and top and house and strip the tobacco.

I love my role, I love the job I do.

In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself.

You can't put a price on being proud of what you do.

I think it's great in any job to be doing well and doing it the best that you can, so that's pretty great. But I wouldn't call myself a celebrity in any way. I'm just doing my job.

Work should be for all of us a word as honorable and appealing as patriotism.

Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

I remember I used to think my dad was really cool working at a factory. He used to make buttons. I used to brag, 'This button here, My dad made it.' There was this sense of pride. It's knowing your dad is doing something cool.

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.

I don't look at my work as an avenue for generating more work. For me, my work itself is sufficient.

I have a night job driving tractors on biomass farms.

I think what I do for a living is a privilege, so at the very least, I'd like to think it can be a good time.

I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.

You have to take a certain pride in your work.

I've worked the ranch. I've hauled sugar beets from the field.

I'm very proud of my work at Watford in what has been a short period.

My stepdad was a farmer, so growing up, during summer breaks, I woke up every morning and went to work. Harvesting tobacco, picking cucumbers, gathering watermelons from the patch, pulling up sweet potatoes... stuff like that.

You cannot appreciate the sense of satisfaction that I get from my job.