Famous quotes containing the word earn:
“...Im thirteen years old, and I think Im at the crossroads of my life. Ive got to make good between now and the time Im twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, Im the father of my family and Ive got to earn all the money I can.”
—Mary Pickford (18931979)
“Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun....
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—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“I cant earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. Its like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, shavings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.”
—Margaret Anderson (18861973)