![I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-started-learning-my-lessons-in-abbot-texas-where-i-was-born-in-1933-my-sister.jpg)
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hard-work thinking years
I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche. Cameron Diaz
hard-work class promise
Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise. Al Franken
hard-work people cheesy
Achieving success as an actor has not been easy for me. My biggest, probably most irrational complaint has been that I've had to work harder for what I've gotten. I've seen other people with nepotism or wealth or cheesy good looks on their side who've had. James Woods
hard-work lines workers
I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines. Diane Cilento
hard-work writing thinking
I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's magic is the thinnest rind on the world of creation. Most of a writer's life is just work. It happens to be a kind of work that the writer finds fulfilling in the same way that a watchmaker can happily spend countless hours fiddling over the tiny cogs and bits of wire. ... I think the people who end up being writers are people who don't get bored doing that kind of tight focus in small areas. Diane Ackerman
hard-work people lucky
Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you. Dan Totheroh
hard-work live-your-life way
If you live your life the right way, you work hard, you go about things the right way, eventually something good's going to come of it. Dan Uggla
hard-work play guy
As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both. Bret Michaels
hard-work hockey player
We should not have to push you to work hard, you should work hard because you want to be a great player. Bobby Knight
texas relief welfare
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. Carol Burnett
texas games play
This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I...that was on inside of me and not play games... Janis Joplin
texas giving casting
My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects. Bella Thorne
texas museums causes
I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it. Bill Hicks
texas louisiana natural
American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana. Charles Bukowski
texas car murder
I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car. Duane Chapman
texas doe states
Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states. Alistair Cooke
texas people everyday
Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States. Don Baylor
texas people chicago
When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat. Amaury Nolasco
grandparent raised
Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents. Jan Karon
grandparent church sometimes
I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it. Anne Lamott
grandparent touching trying
When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior and I haven't moved one step forward since. Seth Rogen
grandparent age accepting
A grandparent will accept your calls from anywhere, collect. Erma Bombeck
grandparent grandfather principles
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. William Feather
grandparent joyful fathers-and-grandfathers
Good old grandsire ... we shall be joyful of thy company. William Shakespeare
grandparent people fighter
People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen. Dave Grohl