Alice Hamilton Quotes
When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
Quotes to Explore
-
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
-
As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
-
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
-
English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
-
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
-
The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
-
Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.
-
I enjoy my life.
-
Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
-
EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
-
If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
-
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
-
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
-
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
-
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
-
You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
-
I never got to Broadway. I would love to do that.
-
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
-
It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
-
If I leave Philadelphia, it's not because I want to leave. I'm still in love with the place. I want to be here.
-
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
-
I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.
-
When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.
