Mills Quotes - Page 10

• And a revolution of automation finds machines replacing men in the mines and mills of America, without replacing their incomes or their training or their needs to pay the family doctor, grocer and landlord.

  John F. Kennedy

  Work, Men, Doctors

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• When I am assailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. So the human heart, unless it be occupied with some employment, leaves space for the devil, who wriggles himself in and brings with him a whole host of evil thoughts, temptations, and tribulations, which grind out the heart.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Space, Pigs

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.275

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• I grew up on the Southside of Chicago. What people don't realize is that my father was a multimillionaire who owned 12 hotels, motels, a steel mill, a radio station, a club, nursing home, and a law office. So I think it's safe to say I'm a little above middle class and I'm a daddy's girl.

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

  Girl, Father, Home

  "First Lady LisaRaye McCoy-Misick: 'I'm Going to Get Through This'". Essence Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Mother, Teacher, Father

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• Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Missing, Principles

  Charles Dickens (2012). “Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times”, p.1101, Graphic Arts Books

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• When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  School, Fifty, Quitting

  "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.

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• I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Ohio, Years, Shoes

  "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.

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• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  Frances Mayes

  Grandfather, Cotton, Georgia

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• You cannot make a wind-mill goe with a paire of bellowes.

  George Herbert

  Wind

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.349

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• All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Running, Unforgivable Sin, Different

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• Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Lying, Land, Numbers

  "Information: The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004.

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• you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.

  Jean Little

  Running, Mountain Ranges, Imagination

  Jean Little (1990). “Stars Come Out Within”, Markham, Ont. : Viking

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• The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that I want to. I think I'm just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It's hard.

  Liev Schreiber

  Thinking, Careers, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For instance, you'll have a moonlit night if you write that on the mill dam a piece of glass from a broken bottle glittered like a bright little star, and that the black shadow of a dog or a wolf rolled past like a ball.

  Anton Chekhov

  Dog, Stars, Eye

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1987). “The Unknown Chekhov: Stories and Other Writings”

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• I came out of the make-up trailer with 400 whiteheads on my face and they were like, "Kristen, come on!" I was like, "What? It's realistic! I had whiteheads in high school," and they were like, "No, let's just go with regular, standard, run of the mill acne."

  Kristen Bell

  Running, School, Acne

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

  Grant Morrison

  Grief, Writing, Joy

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

  Chuck Knox

  Home, Want, Good Living

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• Oh, father's gone to market-town, he was up before the day,
  And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making hay,
  And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that minds the mill,
  While mother from the kitchen door is calling with a will,
  "Polly!-Polly!-
  The cows are in the corn!
  Oh, where's Polly?"

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Summer, Mother, Father

  Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

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• I never wanted to be run of the mill.

  Barbara Jordan

  Running, Wanted

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• The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Might, Saws, Fruit

  "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter XI, Beyond the Economic Revolution, p. 307, 1953.

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• Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Fire, Law

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.38

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• Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Spiritual, Country, House

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• Ask yourself whether you are happy', observed the philosopher John Stuart Mill, 'and you cease to be so.' At best, it would appear, happiness can only be glimpsed out of the corner of an eye, not stared at directly.

  Oliver Burkeman

  Eye, Philosopher, Corners

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• There are a lot of regulations that are really just crushing jobs. Look at the coal miners in the Rust Belt that are getting out of work. Look at the - look at the loggers and the timber workers and the paper mills in the West Coast. Look at the ranchers or farmers in the Midwest with regulations.

  Paul Ryan

  Crush, Jobs, Coal Miners

  "Big Ag Just Got A Big, Wet Kiss From Paul Ryan" by Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. December 6, 2016.

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• What's the Matter with the Mill?

  Memphis Minnie

  Rich Poor, Matter, Oblivion

  Song: What's the Matter with the Mill?

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