WORKING in Classic Quotes

1  I continued working on this vessel for a number of days.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

2  The first thing I ever learned in the way of book knowledge was while working in this salt-furnace.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

3  He was just as happy in trying to assist some other institution in the South as he was when working for Hampton.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

4  My work pleased the captain so well that he told me if I desired I could continue working for a small amount per day.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

5  Notwithstanding his affliction, he worked almost constantly night and day for the cause to which he had given his life.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

6  In addition to this, she worked among the older people in and near Tuskegee, and taught a Sunday school class in the town.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.

7  During the day the greater part of the young men worked in the school's sawmill, and the young women worked in the laundry.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI.

8  It was hard for me to understand how any individuals could bring themselves to the point where they could be so happy in working for others.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

9  The General knew, too, that the way to strengthen Hampton was to make it a centre of unselfish power in the working out of the whole Southern problem.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XII.

10  I worked long enough to earn money for my breakfast, and it seems to me, as I remember it now, to have been about the best breakfast that I have ever eaten.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter III.

11  He began working at this trade when he was quite small, dividing his time between this and class work; and he has developed great skill in the trade and a fondness for it.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter XVI.

12  After I had worked in the salt-furnace for some time, work was secured for me in a coal-mine which was operated mainly for the purpose of securing fuel for the salt-furnace.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

13  As soon as the plans were drawn for the new building, the students began digging out the earth where the foundations were to be laid, working after the regular classes were over.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IX.

14  One reason for this was that any one who worked in a coal-mine was always unclean, at least while at work, and it was a very hard job to get one's skin clean after the day's work was over.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.

15  During the time that I was a student at Hampton my older brother, John, not only assisted me all that he could, but worked all of the time in the coal-mines in order to support the family.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

16  Miss Mackie was a member of one of the oldest and most cultured families of the North, and yet for two weeks she worked by my side cleaning windows, dusting rooms, putting beds in order, and what not.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter IV.

17  I had been working in a salt-furnace for several months, and my stepfather had discovered that I had a financial value, and so, when the school opened, he decided that he could not spare me from my work.

Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II.