Vera Lynn Quotes

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.

In 'Taxi,' I kept doing the same scene for three years. I was underused.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life.'

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

How many people are not as good as they could be at their job because they don't love it? They're not passionate about it. If you don't like something, why are you doing it?

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester

Very often the children are awakened by the parents at four in the morning. They are pulled out of bed when almost asleep. The younger children are carried on the backs of the older children asleep to the mill, and they see no more of their parents till they go home at night, and are sent to bed.

I will use all my influence in trying to remove from our factory system the cruelties which are practiced in our mills.

Workrooms were often overcrowded, dirty, ill-ventilated, and insufficiently heated. The employment of little errand girls, usually only 14 years of age… Their work was very varied – running errands, matching materials, taking out parcels, cleaning the workrooms, and often also helping in the work of the house. To be at the beck and call of all employed in a busy workshop was arduous and fatiguing. They could work legally from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and often were sent out from the workshop a few minutes before 8 p.m. to take a dress to a customer living some distance away, which resulted in their not reaching home until a late hour. It was not surprising that the young persons in those workshops often looked weary and overdone; but there were plenty of girls to take their place, so they would not give in.

At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.

Most people are living a life they don't like. They go to work where they don't want to work.