Quotes About Workhorses

#1. I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

Joanna Lumley

#2. Saint Guy of Anderlecht was the tenth-century Belgian saint of animals, stables, workhorses, and bachelors.

Edmund White

#3. I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.

Peter Capaldi

#4. Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn't leaned heavily on one animal or another.

Sam Kean

#5. But I don't write about sex for today's teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I'm more interested in exploring how exactly the world is run, which doesn't really change that much from one generation to another.

Nina Bawden

#6. I open the book and turn to the next page. Day three.
I started screaming today.
And those four words hit me harder than the worst kind of physical pain.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Stendhal

#8. that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor. His was the power and the money and the influence. He was the proprietor of the paper and its editor and sub-editor. He was the Foreign Secretary and the Judge.

Virginia Woolf

#9. I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go,

Joni Mitchell

#10. Good news, Doc: all my internal injuries are psychological.

A.G. Riddle

#11. Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

Rudyard Kipling

#12. And wishes, truly wishes, that she could say the same herself. Because hurting herself would be so much easier.

Amy Efaw

#13. You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore ... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.

Mira Grant

#14. The church today is riddled with fad doctrines and new sounds that distract from the clear message of the Great commission in the New Testament. Any message that attracts you which does not bring glory to Christ is the message of a seducing spirit and the man giving it is in deception.

John Hagee

#15. Of all types of human being, only the artist takes it upon him to say that he "cannot" work.

George Orwell

#16. Men. You can't live with them, you can't ... no. That's about it.

Regina King

#17. Afterwards the members of the little war party felt fine. Torturing whites was a splendid way to spend the afternoon.

Larry McMurtry

#18. He couldn't help but wonder if Moses Levy had experienced this same heat, if true images burned their maker. He wondered, too, if the hermit at that riverside was right, if there wasn't some element of capturing a soul in each photograph, if he wasn't responsible for those whose images he caught.

Alice Hoffman

#19. The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

Laurie Colwin