Noblest Profession Quotes

#1. Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.

Spencer Tracy

#3. I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.

Tamora Pierce

#4. I just try to keep healthy more so than trying to be thin.

Margot Robbie

#5. To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

Phyllis McGinley

#6. The main difference between a lawyer and a prostitute is that a prostitute won't screw you after you're dead.

Mark R. Jones

#7. I don't have to have talent. I just need to have auto-tune and be allowed to have the hottest track in the game, and my swag.

Spencer Pratt

#8. [The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.

Edward Gibbon

#9. The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result

Emile Durkheim

#10. It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.

Douglas Coupland

#11. That God should allow good people to be as bestially stupid as that--rose against me like a towering blasphemy.

G.K. Chesterton

#12. I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.

Lawrence Durrell

#13. To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

Amos Alonzo Stagg

#14. The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

Kenneth Kaunda

#15. Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.

Sylvia Plath

#16. What shall I do, today? Visit the pub?
Sit down in a garden with a book? A bird
flies past. Where is it headed? It's out of
sight already. The drunkenness of a bird in the
burning azure. The melancholy of a man
in the cool shadow of a mosque.

Omar Khayyam

#17. When I first went on the stage I was 17 and under the legal age for performers.

Ethel Waters

#18. Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

Phil Harding

#19. You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

Jim Rohn

#20. I am fairly tired
bored beyond endurance
by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

Henry Adams