Labor Upper House

Famous quotes containing the words labor, upper and/or house:

    “When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty but a privilege.”
    —Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

    “If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Part way back from Bedlam
    I came to my mother’s house in Gloucester,
    Massachusetts. And this is how I came
    to catch at her; and this is how I lost her.
    I cannot forgive your suicide, my mother said.
    And she never could.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)