Quotes about artisans (16 Quotes)

They are ripping off consumers and they take a lot of money out of the pockets of Indian artists and artisans.

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of youngsters are being prepared for careers they have little aptitude for and little interest in except for dubious prestige.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

By Themistocles alone, or with very few others, does this saying appear to be approved, which, though Alcus formerly had produced, many afterwards claimed 'Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans, make a state but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.'

They want to see demonstrations, they want to see classes, they want to see artisans.

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucious, Thothmes, and Buddha. Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids --always by a Freemason.

When Gov. Warner announced his Virginia Works initiative last spring, we actively advocated with the governor and the secretary of commerce and trade that the Artisans Center be the lead organization for that initiative. We weren't successful with that, even though we did get the secretary and the Department of Housing and Community Development to remember that there is an Artisans Center of Virginia that should be an integral part of anything that they do related to the works of artisans anywhere in Virginia.

I'm not sure what it is about cymbals, but people are drawn to them. For us as artisans, we have to put all those feelings together to create one-of-a-kind cymbals.

It's difficult to find materials and artisans capable of producing a building of this scale and complexity ... the nooks and crannies are what makes it complicated, but that's what some people would say gives it its charm. I'm one of them,

Were building the fair to large enough crowds to make artisans want to come and display their crafts.

Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.

Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.

Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers some are artists and others artisans.

Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.