Away Quote by Alice Walker

My mother worked at home, making clothes, trying to make some money.

— Carlos Carvalhal

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

— Michael Moore

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

— James Weldon Johnson

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store…

— Christie Hefner

My Dad was a tailor and he would give my mother housekeeping money each week and call it her 'wages.'

— Maureen Lipman

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what…

— Hector Elizondo

My father was a truck driver, made $50 a week. And the reason why I know that so vividly is my Mom used to…

— Mathew Knowles

My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So…

— Willie Nelson

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have…

— Ashley Greene

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post…

— Tom Brokaw

I worked every waking minute, nights and weekends, in order to make enough money to buy those summers off, and even then we wouldn't…

— Debra Dean

My mother cleaned hotel rooms and worked in a video store. My father delivered newspapers and washed dishes in restaurants.

— Leana S. Wen