Maye Musk Quotes

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

I've lived in poverty.

I was poor my whole life.

I've been poor most of my life.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I come from a poor family.

I know what poverty is.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

My family were really poor.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

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.