Born Quote by Alice Roberts

I was born and raised during Depression Years when we were on County relief and we all went out and we hustled. we worked.…

— Liberace

I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the…

— Jules Feiffer

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher…

— James Altucher

I was terrible at interviews, lost in my own loss of identity and struggling at home as a wife and mother. It was a…

— Mika Brzezinski

I floundered in my twenties. Though I wore a long scarf. And when I got to be thirty I got a job at Temple…

— Gerald Stern

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from…

— Wayne Dyer

There was a deficit between what I was earning and what my family needed to live off. I was resigned to the fact that,…

— John Bishop

I became a freelance stylist to survive, and then I had a kid. I bankrupted in 1988 and had a kid in 1990.

— Maripol

I was a young mother with a dependent. I went from nice flat and fire service job to cold and hungry with a child.…

— Jack Monroe

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

— Luke Ford

I did all kind of jobs to sustain myself. I worked at a grocery store, in the public health department, and what was then…

— Ruskin Bond

I really wanted to work and become independent.

— Victoria Abril