Quotes tagged ‘Menial Labor’

(5 total)

“Higgins: As you may have noticed, I've fired the groundskeeper. Until I can find a successor, I'd like you to assume some of the responsibilities. Magnum: But Higgins, I don't know the first thing about gardening! Higgins: I assure you, the kind of work I had in mind requires no intelligence whatsoe…”

— Jeff Wilhelm, Thomas Magnum, Tom Selleck, imdb.com

“If ever a man deserved his success, that man was Okonkwo. At an early age he had achieved fame as the greatest wrestler in all the land. That was not luck. At the most one could say that his chi or personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man say yes his chi says yes also…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“I’m a worker, a guy meant to do a physical job. That’s what my dad did. That’s what my grandfather did. It’s the type of work I’d be doing if there were no such thing as acting.”

— Chris Pratt, mensjournal.com

“I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents….We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton….Picking cotton is hard and pa…”

— Willie Nelson, en.wikiquote.org

“Most men like working on things, tools, objects, fixing things. This is what men enjoy doing. Have you ever noticed a guy's out in his driveway working on something with tools, how all the other men in the neighborhood are magnetically drawn to this activity. They just come wandering out of the hous…”

— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com