Food Quote by Melody Gardot

My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the…

— Walter Matthau

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and…

— Anonymous

I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two…

— Cecily McMillan

As a kid, I saw my mom work multiple jobs only to be able to afford the bare essentials.

— Alvin Kamara

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a…

— Chloe Sevigny

I pay my rent and my bills and I buy food and toys for my dog and that's it.

— Bria Vinaite

When I started go-go dancing on tables for a living, I didn't want to tell my mom or my dad. I made 25 dollars…

— Goldie Hawn

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

My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the…

— Kevin J. Anderson

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

We came to the U.S. with $40. My parents were both professionals in China who had difficulty finding employment here. They worked multiple jobs,…

— Leana S. Wen

Growing up, I watched my single mother work hard to provide for her three kids. She raised us in a one-bathroom house on a…

— Conner Eldridge