Clean Quote by Alan King

My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's…

— Amy Tan

We were definitely not rich, but we were not poor. My mum always came home from work and did everything so that we ate…

— Riyad Mahrez

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

— Giorgio Armani

My mother cleaned houses. I washed dishes.

— Eric Adams

My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So she cleaned offices.…

— Ursula Burns

My mom is a beautiful, amazing woman. We didn't have a ton of money growing up, and even, at one point, we were living…

— Jessie James Decker

I was lucky because my mother worked extremely hard, and our family always had food to eat.

— Gabriel Jesus

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at…

— Frank Ocean

Growing up, we were a poor yet tightknit family. My mother worked multiple jobs and always made sure that her kids never had to…

— Nia Jax

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

— Kelly Clarkson

My mom did amazing work, raising four kids on her own on a secretary's salary; we were on school free lunch program, but she…

— Ruben Gallego