American Quote by Gary David Goldberg

I had come to college believing in a story that if you worked hard, the American dream was reachable.

— Matthew Desmond

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've worked countless jobs from waiting tables to packing boxes in a paper factory - a testament that I hustled on and never gave…

— Pia Wurtzbach

Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth.

— Tim Finchem

I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He broke his back and was disabled,…

— Joseph Abboud

I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I ever going to get out of…

— Michael Wolf

On an otherwise normal Tuesday evening I had the chance to live the American Dream. I was able to throw my incompetent jackass of…

— Larry Correia

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

— George Michael

My father was the classic epitome of a very hard immigrant-worker. He made up for his lack of education by working really hard... He…

— Jonny Kim

I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for 50 years.…

— Hillary Clinton

I worked with women who were nurses and workers, women who worked in hotels, janitors who basically cleaned buildings, worked two jobs just to…

— Cecile Richards

My dad worked 12-hour shifts in the Kodak factory - I remember creeping about when he was on nights - but he was also…

— Tom Fletcher