Quotes About Working From The Bottom Up

#1. It's immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. We should look at countries like Denmark and Sweden and Norway and look at what they've accomplished for their working people.

Bernie Sanders

#2. The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

Jim Clyburn

#3. we have a system that has been working overtime to move money from the bottom and middle to the top, but the system is so inefficient that the gains to the top are far less than the losses to the middle and bottom.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#4. I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

Elton John

#5. Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.

Stephen Karam

#6. A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

Stephen King

#7. I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.

John Marin

#8. Life is just the time between crapping yourself.

Adam Carolla

#9. The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.

Richard Trumka

#10. Bacteria and viruses were the most effective allies.

Eduardo Galeano

#11. It was as if the bones and veins were working their way to the surface; as if the skin were water receding to expose shapes at the bottom of a harbor.

Jonathan Franzen

#12. I think there's lots of people with family connections but who are actually nowhere. If you're hard-working and determined, you will make it, and that's the bottom line. I don't believe in an easy way through.

Isabel Dos Santos

#13. I mistook my free fall for freedom.

Sacha Zimmerman Scoblic

#14. I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

Ridley Scott

#15. Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

Joss Whedon

#16. 'Saw' is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner ... That's the way 'Saw' plays out.

Tobin Bell

#17. She knows I love the dude. She's trying to butter me up - both sides, front and back, top to bottom. It's working.

Kim Holden

#18. No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.

Napoleon Hill

#19. There is magic in knocking down your most important domino day after day. All you have to do is avoid breaking the chain, one day at a time, until you generate a powerful new habit in your life.

Gary W. Keller

#20. A good prayer from the bottom of our heart gives us an expectation that we always have a parallel force or energy or a person, which or who is always working for and with us.

Ajaykumar Narayanan

#21. If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.

Chuck Close

#22. Men on the surface of a planet are as helpless against men in spaceships as a man would be trying to conduct a rock-throwing fight from the bottom of a well. The man at the top of the well has gravity working for him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#23. That does almost nothing to address voters' concerns, which remain a potent factor in the campaign. The bottom line is, there's a reason Republicans keep pushing so hard against Obamacare: So far, it's working.

Byron York

#24. Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

John Mayer

#25. Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

Quincy Jones

#26. The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Edward Gibbon

#27. Interns are invisible. You can tell an executive your name a hundred times and that executive will never remember it because they have no respect for someone at the bottom of the barrel, working for free.

Shane Kuhn

#28. The bottom line is: We must be working on arriving at the destination for which we were put on this planet.

Yehuda Berg

#29. From a selection of his other works, we might think him variously courtly, cerebral, metaphysical, melancholic, Machiavellian, neurotic, lighthearted, loving, and much more. Shakespeare was of course all these things - as a writer. We hardly know what he was as a person.

Bill Bryson

#30. Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed.

Rachel Naomi Remen