#occupation

All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments, It is not the violins and the cornets....it is not the oboe nor the beating drums--nor the notes of the baritone singing his sweet romanza....nor those of the men's chorus, It is nearer and farther than they. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#music #poetry #men

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#being #call #child #high-risk #home

Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941. ↗

— Roald Hoffmann

#our #part #poland #russian #under

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#animal #beings #determines #garment #human

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him. ↗

— John Burroughs

#blessed #complete #congenial #forces #heart

Writing is a solitary occupation. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#solitary #solitary occupation #writing

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#certain #equally #every #exclusive #fault

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#citizenship #his #informed #make #obliges

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them. ↗

— George Lucas

#easy #film #lot #occupation #occupations

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world. ↗

— Malcolm Mclaren

#art world #glorious #occupations #particularly #stealing