Mum Quotes - Page 3

I have lived in Mumbai for more than 20 years, have my domicile here, my home and family here.

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

I offered to pee on him, but they said no

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.

I Came To Mumbai With Just Rs. 1,500 ... My Mother Gave Me Before She Died

Nothing is more vain than to seek to unite men by a philosophic minimum.

The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie - but only if she is paid the minimum wage.

Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty

I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out the plain truth of things. The best chance for achieving peace and prosperity, for the maximum number of people worldwide, is to pursue the cause of liberty. If you find this to be a worthwhile message, spread it throughout the land.

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

My mum told me that I have a gift, but it doesn't make me better than others

I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you.

Just keep your head down and do your best.

As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.

I turned atheist in the 90s when India went through troubled times - communal riots, bomb blasts... Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides - right and left.

I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

I feel like I'm going to HURL. Which, even if I wanted to do, I couldn't do, because I haven't eaten. I can't even drag myself out of my room. And while I'd be able to muster the strength to roundhouse Fang until he begged for MERCY, I'de be mush around an Eraser.