Working Drive

Famous quotes containing the words working and/or drive:

“The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they’re not going to succeed, saying: “There is life, but it’s not for you.””
—John Mortimer (b. 1923)

“The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.”
—Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)