Cesar Chavez Quotes

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

Cesar Chavez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 31, 1927 - April 23, 1993

Topics

WorkMoneyRisksPoorForceOnly

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

Joe Cocker

JobGasLikePipeWhichHad

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

Andrew Young

LifeGoodTimeDayParentsMe

I'd been wanting to try a YA novel for years because I saw how exciting the genre was and how amazing, hungry, and curious the readers were.

Jeff Giles

CuriousAmazingTryYearsHungry

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Michael Pollan

NatureGardeningLawnRule

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

Josh Hartnett

PathPeopleThinkGrowLearnYou

At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.

Jose Carreras

RelationshipProfessionalNowFirst

I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.

Jonathan Franzen

PeopleTearsIndependentFinishDefy

I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C.

Connie Britton

MotherTimeMeHairDriveThought

I don't hate oatmeal raisin, but it is the worst cookie. Profoundly disappointing.

Brett Gelman

HateWorstCookieOatmealRaisin

I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.

Alice Dreger

I AmBe TrueFindTrueLedPopular

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

SmileHomeAbroadOften

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

Sylvia Kristel

LoveTruthNeedAvoidingInvent

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