(6 quotes found)
“I noticed in the hallway a black janitor and I wondered why he was standing there. And he had a mop under his arm. And as I passed him, he turned his body, twisted his body, and touched me with the mop handle. Now this delivered a message and the message was clear: We are looking after you while you are here,”
James Meredith
“If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.”
Bruce Springsteen
“I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'”
Walter Mosley
“We don't like calling him a janitor. He does way more than that.”
Don Beck
“Now who do you think cooked these books? Some janitor or low-level employees?”
William Lerach
“About the only guy Terrell didn't apologize to was the team janitor.”
Bill Killion