George Herbert Quotes

I like feeling like an ox at the end of the day. I like working hard.

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, guarding the melon fields at night. I believe that's what gave me the strength.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

I've worked really physically hard, and I was never afraid of working hard as younger bloke.

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

There is one thing I can say about working in a steel mill. If it does not kill you, it will make a man out of you.

I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.

It is hard working with animals, I've got to say.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Mine is the horny hand of toil.

My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. One day. Never again. My dad was a no-nonsense guy. As a kid, I hated his rules, but as a man, I understand what he was teaching. He taught me you have to work hard for everything you get.

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

It's sheer torture. I have to be up with the chickens every day and go to work on my body. I hate it, but I do it.

The mints of Grenada no longer coin gold, but steel.

My respect for politicians has increased. It's hard work - even hard physical work.

My high school job was putting insulation in attics - in Louisiana in the summer. It must have been 95 degrees every day, and the insulation used to get all over me. It was not fun. But I didn't know any different. It wasn't like I was spending summers on Cape Cod.

My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.

When you grow up on a farm, you grow up fast.

When you wrestle for 15 years, you don't want to go back to driving that forklift.

I cut grass, I did yard work, I did roofing, I cleaned basements to take care of my family.

I never went into the mine. But I saw my father and other men coming out, day after day, their faces and bodies covered in soot. It looked very hard and dangerous.

My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the corn. We hated it, but it taught me the meaning of good hard work.

It is possible that Modi sees his life as evidence that hard physical work can triumph over every disadvantage, but if so, most of us Indians do not share his faith.