Labor Day Quotes 2017

As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force. Elizabeth Esty


As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers' rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force. Elizabeth Esty


The late Estee Lauder says you can never wear white shoes after Labor Day. But of course, in today's world, that does not exist. Andre Leon Talley


Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation. Samuel Gompers


If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. Doug Larson


For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love. Randi Weingarten



I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens. Maika Monroe


When I was 13, my family moved from a suburb of New York City to Miami, Florida, and we moved there the Friday before Labor Day weekend. Chris Bohjalian


The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November. Peter Jennings


School after Labor Day is now the law of the land in Maryland. Larry Hogan


I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to speak to us during the summer. They can start talking again after Labor Day. Lewis Black


I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you? Claire McCaskill


According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities. Brendan I. Koerner


Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 years of working for America's workers. Thomas Perez


Of all the American educational system's problems, none is more severe than the academic year beginning before Labor Day. P. J. O'Rourke

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.  ~Henry van Dyke


God sells us all things at the price of labor.  ~Leonardo da Vinci


The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.  ~Elbert Hubbard


Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.  ~Marc Chagall


Without labor nothing prospers.  ~Sophocles


Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.  It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.  ~Adam Smith


Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.  ~Ovid


Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.  ~Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard


A mind always employed is always happy.  This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.  ~Thomas Jefferson


God give me work, till my life shall end
And life, till my work is done.
~Epitaph of Winifred Holtby


Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold.  But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.  ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You


The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.  ~H.L. Mencken


There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.  ~H.M. Tomlinson


The end of labor is to gain leisure.  ~Aristotle


Labor not — for one day,
just sit, breathe, and rejoice
drinking what you please
and enjoying what you may.
~Terri Guillemets

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.  ~John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690


If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.  ~Doug Larson


Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day.  It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.  ~Bill Dodds