Earner Quotes

#1. But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

Plato

#2. The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.

Christine Pelosi

#3. Bury you with Satan, to hell then I bury ya. I'm like Lucifer the unforgiven, cast out of heaven, I much rather rule in hell than be a servant. A hell on earth survivor means you better be a earner.

Necro

#4. Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

George Will

#5. When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

Barbara Corcoran

#6. The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.

Grover Cleveland

#7. It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

Winston Churchill

#8. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.

Pope Leo XIII

#10. The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

Thomas Perez

#11. You replace it by 23 percent tax, a frank, transparent tax embedded in the cost at retail, and everybody gets to takes their whole check home. And the average income earner gets a 50 percent increase in take-home pay.

John Linder

#12. Our anxieties were driving us to become other people - he was Earner; I was
Mother, like characters in some phenomenally boring Ionesco play.

Claire Dederer

#13. Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

Gunter Grass

#14. When a husband and wife both are employed full-time, the mother does 40 percent more child care and about 30 percent more housework than the father.1 A 2009 survey found that only 9 percent of people in dual-earner marriages said that they shared housework, child care, and breadwinning evenly.

Sheryl Sandberg

#15. I've always been terrified about not having money. I've been a big saver and a big earner. When I've been out of work, I've always found another job. I never wanted to get into debt, because money was very tight when I was growing up. I never felt deprived, but I couldn't have the things I wanted.

Cherie Lunghi

#16. It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner ... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#17. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

William J.H. Boetcker

#18. Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

Bill Pascrell

#19. We want a macho high-earner - with the sensitivity of Gok Wan. We want a man with Brad Pitt's six-pack - but one who's prepared to overlook our own muffin top. No wonder most men don't know if they're coming or going.

Jojo Moyes

#20. Any earner who earns more than he can spend is automatically an investor.

G.M. Loeb

#21. Ninety percent of all millionaires become so through owning real estate. More money has been made in real estate than in all industrial investments combined. The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

Andrew Carnegie

#22. They were going to work, I could see it in their eyes, they had that vacant wage-earner look. I

Karl Ove Knausgard

#23. The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.

Peter Cetera

#24. Since I'm a man of my word, I don't show up at her door. I do end up driving over to the trailer park with my SUV. Parking, I crawl into the backseat, play tunes on my phone, and doze as close to my woman as I can manage without breaking my promise.

Bijou Hunter

#25. Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.

Martha Cooley

#26. These are my own simple quotes: "God can orchestrate things far better than we can." and "Enthusiasm generates enthusiasm.

Carol Cherry Anderson

#27. Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.

Nico Muhly

#28. What happened December 12?" Polyester asks.
I look at the wall, my attention suddenly riveted by a palmetto bug, feelers writhing. I could kill it if I wanted.
He hit me."
The bug slides to the floor.

Alex Flinn

#29. That they lack, for if their heads had any intellectual armour they could never wear such heavy headpieces

William Shakespeare

#30. Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake ... During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.

William Rathje

#31. The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit ... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.

Kristan Higgins