Amy Childs Quotes

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

Well, for me the canning factory was minimum wage, which at the time I believe was $3.40 or something. I was just happy to have a job.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

If you think about $7.25 an hour, that's $290 a week. It's inhumane to have that kind of wage.

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10.

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist. Fortunately, such families do not exist.

Nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty.

It's wrong that so many hardworking people - people working full-time, or even multiple jobs - need public assistance just to survive.