Borers Quotes

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty laborers, and not so much to drink either. - George Bernard Shaw

You can take the bark off an ash tree and see if (the borers) come to it. This pest prefers stressed trees, but it will attack healthy trees as well. You can spend a lot of money taking down trees in a half-mile radius, but if you don't have the ability to tell it's in another tree 100 feet away, the policy doesn't make much sense. - Robert Waltz

Workers that make these clothes don't even earn a living wage. In Mexico, laborers often work for $4.50 a day, and even though the law prohibits their employers from forcing them to work more than eight hours per day, they are often forced to work 10 or 12 hours per day. - David Romero

Without the people you have no union. ... Without the laborers this country wouldn't be what it is. - Roger Hatch

With the Baby Boomer generation getting up in age, there's going to be a real lack of skilled workers here in the future and everybody is recognizing that. A lot of these youngsters want to go into technology and computer fields and that's all well and good, but it leaves a gap of skilled laborers and there are good jobs to be had out there. - Paul Harris

White laborers known for their enterprise, their diligence, their economy, which builds up new empires in the West. - David Wilmot

When this whole controversy over the day laborers broke, the county executive was very troubled by it. He is concerned that there's a feeling of intolerance and he feels that Westchester County is better than that. Now the mayor has to decide if he wants to end the controversy and work with us. - Susan Tolchin

What I really want to say is that what the world needs is a feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, blacks, Jews, Arabs - we're all brothers! - Marilyn Monroe

We will employ about 20 local employees. We're still taking applications for salespeople and laborers. Applications can be picked up at the Chamber of Commerce office or City Hall. - Jason Bennett

We were upset because we believed the town came to a very reasonable decision within the framework of the law. We finally said 'enough is enough' and we wanted to respond to their non-factual claims [about immigrants] and support the day laborers. - Jennifer Boysko