Quotes About Social Worker

#1. I'm not a trained academic. Neither am I a veteran social worker. I was 26 years in the corporate world, trying to make organizations profitable. And then in 2003 I started Parikrma Humanity Foundation from my kitchen table.

Shukla Bose

#2. My mom's a social worker, and my dad works in non-profit organisations.

Seth Rogen

#3. When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone.

Angela Featherstone

#4. I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.

Kyrsten Sinema

#5. I'd way rather defend myself against a man with a stick than a social worker with good intentions.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#6. Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument, and they no longer think they can make the world a better place. That can make them rather boring, I suppose.

Nina Bawden

#7. Some of my friends would lie to girls to get them, or do things that - you know, they would cheat on girls. I was just never in the realm of what, you know, what's instilled to me, you know? Yeah, I mean, my mom's a social worker, for God's sakes.

Seth Rogen

#8. I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

Natalie Wood

#9. Meredith Combs, the social worker responsible for selecting the stream of adoptive families that gave me back, wanted to talk to me about blame.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#10. There was Arctic John, a businessman from Salisbury who doesn't hold water, Bruce Knott, a social worker from Cumberland who spends his lunch hour picking his bum, and Judith Glycerine, the reformation pig.

St John Morris

#11. My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.

Jo Brand

#12. My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Tunde Adebimpe

#13. For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

Iris Dement

#14. Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

Jane Addams

#15. It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and a Tory, and my mum's a social worker. So I can always see the benefits of both arguments.

James Corden

#16. It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.

Alexander McCall Smith

#17. I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it.

Tama Janowitz

#18. Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

Laura Wasser

#19. The evil in question reappears in the world after you vanquish it, often within mere minutes, and the world as a whole never changes because of anything you do. So in that way it's less like being a fantasy adventurer and more like being a social worker.

Lore Sjoberg

#20. One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

Margaret Beckett

#21. My whole background as a social worker has allowed me to understand human behavior in difficult situations. Working in Kenya, I see the most desperate situations - things I could never believe possible - and then have to try to find solutions.

Eric Walters

#22. I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

Charles Kuralt

#23. She's a social worker, Karen," Mac said when I told the group. "She must know something about homosexuality.

Nancy Garden

#24. As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#25. Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?"
Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#26. While some who downplay Christ's divinity have imagined Jesus as a great social worker 'being kind to old ladies, small dogs and little children,' orthodox Christianity has not wanted Jesus to have a political message.

N. T. Wright

#27. I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.

Barbara Mikulski

#28. My mom worked as a psychiatric social worker. She was interested in people, and I guess I am, too. So we would talk about the people that we knew, and why they behaved the way they did.

Julianne Moore

#29. Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.

Ayn Rand

#30. It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#31. I remember when I was a young social worker, the first time I went to the state capital in Arizona, where I eventually served for seven years, I was so nervous to go and lobby my state legislators. Because I only had a master's degree at the time in social work.

Kyrsten Sinema

#32. My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

Leigh Newman

#33. Don't show up around here until your social worker's helped.

Elton John

#34. If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.

Pierce Brosnan

#35. A nurse and a social worker took fifteen minutes out of their shitty thankless job in the roughest corner of town, sat on a couple of milk crates drinking coffee, flopped their real selves out of the cement and both liked what they saw.

Laura Buzo

#36. I've never considered being a cop. I could be a teacher, I could be a minister, a social worker or a professor. As long I don't have to see blood and see people die every day, if I could inspire or help in their lives, that's something I'd want to do.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

#37. My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister and I were moved around constantly, in and outside the U.S., living in Germany for much of our teens.

Julianne Moore

#38. Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside.

Carla H. Krueger

#39. I always feel anxious if anyone's close to uncovering my secrets.

Carla H. Krueger

#40. The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.

Emma Goldman

#41. It's hard to stop people comparing their world with the world they imagine you to have.

Carla H. Krueger

#42. Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

George Packer

#43. No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Carla H. Krueger

#44. Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Gloria Steinem

#45. She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He's a religion for non-believers.

Carla H. Krueger

#46. Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

Sherrod Brown

#47. Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

Carla H. Krueger

#48. Social work is an opportunity for huge hearts they remember to do small things.

Kishore Bansal

#49. We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

Mother Teresa

#50. No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#51. There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer

Martin Luther King Jr.

#52. We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives.

Carla H. Krueger