Bob Corker Quotes

I come from a working-class family, and I've been working since I was 13, from babysitting to blueberry picking to factory work to bookstore work. And of course, being a mother and homemaker, the hardest work of all.

I have worked ever since I was 13.

They were tough times and I started working when I was 10 years old, delivering papers and eventually becoming a waiter.

I used to sell candy and ice creams in the street, and I worked in the fields to help my parents.

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.

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

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

I've been working since I was five!

I am working since I was seven.

Since I was 14, I worked more than 13 hours a day as a kitchen runner for a butcher.

I haven't stopped working since I was 10.

I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.

My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.

I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.

My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

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.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.