Top 41 Quotes About Carpenters

#1. I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

W.E.B. Du Bois

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#2. But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.
Twice I have so simply declared myself,
have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,
have taken on his craft, his magic.

Anne Sexton

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#3. Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

Michel Onfray

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#4. Paternalistic regulations often prohibit women from holding jobs in certain industries: In the Russian Federation, women cannot drive trucks in the agriculture sector; in Belarus, they cannot be carpenters; in Kazakhstan, they cannot be welders.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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#5. The writers I admired and still admire were not carpenters, but more like sculptors. Their art was and is a real probing of real and troubling human confusions.

Wallace Stegner

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#6. How strange that there would be exactly twenty-four German carpenters in Chicago when the all-night manicure place on the corner of Oakley and Lawrence is called "24/7 Nails.

John Green

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#7. I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.

Jack White

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#8. In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.

James Goldman

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#9. I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

Clay Guida

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#10. As I've gotten old I've really listened to a wide spectrum of music, whether it's The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z or Lauryn Hill. I've kinda' run the gamut, and in listening to so many different styles, you come to take bits and pieces from all of it.

Brooklyn Sudano

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#11. The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.

Ted Sarandos

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#12. My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

Josef Albers

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#13. Helgarson won't tell me, but it must have been bad. His fangs pop out if you just say 'Thor' aloud, and he hunts carpenters simply because they use hammers.

Kevin Hearne

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#14. The Tree of Folklore has no objection whatever to creative carpenters.

Terry Pratchett

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#15. All these people that I used to know, they're an illusion to me now. Some are mathematicians, some are carpenters' wives.

Bob Dylan

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#16. Carpenters don't make their saws and hammers, tailors don't make their scissors and needles, and plumbers don't make their wrenches, but blacksmiths can make their hammers, tongs, anvils, and chisels

Daniel C. Dennett

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#17. Casual affairs never interested him. Every girl he met was gauged as a potential life partner, a soul mate, an undying love, as though every relationship should be a Carpenters song.

Harlan Coben

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#18. Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

Gautama Buddha

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#19. The scariest thing in it may be the way the clock radio has a way of turning itself on, loudly, of its own accord. The song is always the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun." Now that's horror.

Stephanie Zacharek

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#20. There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

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#21. Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

Patrick Duffy

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#22. Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

Danny Huston

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#23. Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.

Gautama Buddha

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#24. [President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.

George Will

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#25. Suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.

Anne Sexton

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#26. For me, the highlight was meeting all the Motown acts, as I adore black soul music. I met Stevie Wonder who I love, and Diana Ross And The Supremes. I also met The Carpenters. I was actually there in the studio when they recorded We've Only Just Begun.

Tony Blackburn

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#27. All three are terrific carpenters and cabinetmakers.

Nora Roberts

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#28. It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn't show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think it was similar for carpenters and writers, and he knew it was the same for chefs.

Laura Lippman

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#29. The Carpenters had a threshold more solid and extensive than the Great Wall of China. I would not be in the least bit surprised if you could see it from space.

Jim Butcher

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#30. You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Steve Earle

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#31. I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

Imelda May

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#32. Well, how do you usually meet women?" "They have a way of suddenly appearing. Like the birds in that song." She had to think about that for a minute. "You mean 'Close to You' by the Carpenters?

Tracey Garvis-Graves

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#33. I believe it would take two Labassecourien carpenters to drive a nail.

Charlotte Bronte

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#34. Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

Sappho

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#35. As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

Gautama Buddha

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#36. As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.

Kaskade

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#37. Why do we insist on being the carpenters of our own crosses?

John Zunski

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#38. I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

Michael Caine

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#39. Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.

Christian Camargo

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#40. Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).

George Herbert

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#41. The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white bricklayers, and white painters will not work side by side with the blacks in the North but do it in almost every Southern State ...

Alexis De Tocqueville

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