Level Working Poverty

Famous quotes containing the words level, working and/or poverty:

“A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)

“I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, “You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it.” And I said, “But, Daddy, no one’s going to see it!” And he said, “Yeah, but I know it’s there.” So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)

“Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)