#occupation

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#during #father #followed #his #life

A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#arise #christian #christians #could #customs

The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country. ↗

— Ted Rall

#allied #billion #commitment #country #coupled

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship. ↗

— Laura Riding

#already #art #because #called #easiest

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#coal #concept #culture #dangerous #develops

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#drive #goal #iraqi #iraqi people #main

To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country. ↗

— Nancy Travis

#buy #country #crowded #doctor #doing

When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#mentoring #occupations #role-models #success #inspirational

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#being pregnant #hazard #occupational #pregnant #wife

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world. ↗

— George Whitefield

#book #find #generations #god #kinds