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- "I always look to being ahead, I always like to be a leader." (1)
- "I always taught them that work is the most honorable thing." (1)
- "I always try to live up to the family tradition." (1)
- "I always used to see myself working on my own." (1)
- "I always wanted to go in business." (1)
- "I applied for a veteran's peddlers license." (1)
- "I became a lawyer, began to practice in January 1975." (1)
- "I began selling newspapers early. I always worked." (1)
- "I begin work at 6:30 or 7 o'clock in the morning, I finish at 10 or 11 o'clock at night, seven days a week." (1)
- "I bought my grave about thirteen years ago." (1)
- "I came here in exile during Bautista's government in Cuba." (1)
- "I didn't have the minimal idea of what I was coming to - I knew I was coming to America but not where." (1)
- "I didn't know anything about the little small four-inch pies." (1)
- "I don't think we're going to see generation after generation on 21st Avenue with the new groups." (1)
- "I don't want to ever go to bed at night and not have something to do when I wake up in the morning." (1)
- "I even did these two ladies' [hair] after they passed away, for the casket." (1)
- "I feel that being a Latina gives me an advantage." (1)
- "I get up about 5:00 in the morning, I get home about 5:30 at night." (1)
- "I got a job at Wellworth's Pickle Factory." (1)
- "I got my education on the streets of Paterson." (1)
- "I guess, we had about 300 people working in that factory." (1)
- "I have quite a congregation, people come in for coffee." (1)
- "I haven't advertised in forty-five years, maybe more." (1)
- "I haven't seen any prejudice where anyone who tried to open a store wasn't able." (1)
- "I just came hoping for a job; it was really tough." (1)
- "I learned from looking." (1)
- "I left Paterson in 1953." (1)
- "I left the sign the same, but now it's Doug's Food Market." (1)
- "I like the control I have being in my own business." (1)
- "I like to see things grow and I like to eat fresh vegetables." (1)
- "I lived on the farm until I was about eighteen years old." (1)
- "I lived on the other side of the river, the 'over the river' section of Paterson." (1)
- "I made all my children's dresses." (1)
- "I only sleep at home." (1)
- "I put an ad in the paper for help, I have 30 or 40 phone calls by 1:00 in the afternoon." (1)
- "I put back the guitar and found out how ten strings would sound, and that was it for the guitar!" (1)
- "I really feel that the age of stores like ours is past, I really do." (1)
- "I really never had headaches putting a machine together." (1)
- "I remember all the feasts in Paterson." (1)
- "I remember the first day of business -- it was scary." (1)
- "I serve now in one week like I used to serve in one month." (1)
- "I speak Italian 95 percent of the day." (1)
- "I started here at Watson as an office boy." (1)
- "I started off as a picker." (1)
- "I started work only three days after I got to this country." (1)
- "I take the measurement of the people, and with the measurement I make the pattern." (1)
- "I think in the 60s it changed, because that was decline of the silk mills in the city of Paterson." (1)
- "I think it might teach them what unity means because we brought a lot of people together that come from different backgrounds." (1)
- "I think it's time for me to retire, I can go no further." (1)
- "I think the Paterson people love hot dogs." (1)
- "I used to walk and talk to everyone." (1)
- "I was born in Paterson." (1)
- "I was born in Puerto Rico." (1)
- "I was busy all my life." (1)
- "I was known as the fastest twister in Paterson at that time." (1)
- "I was never afraid to face anybody and speak my mind." (1)
- "I was only there a year when we had a strike." (1)
- "I was the king of the uncontested divorce." (1)
- "I was the second Spanish-speaking business in this area." (1)
- "I wasn't expected or told that I should start working until after high school." (1)
- "I wasn't going to stay here at all." (1)
- "I went from a machine shop to hardware business." (1)
- "I went into the barbering business with my niece's husband." (1)
- "I worked for the tourism department in Puerto Rico." (1)
- "I would like to sell the business and go into teaching hairdressing." (1)
- "I wouldn't touch a chicken -- all I sold were the innards and the ends." (1)
- "I'll never do anything that I think shouldn't be done -- not for the sake of making a buck." (1)
- "I'm single and I'm trying to make ends meet; imagine these other people who just come to this country, imagine what they're going through." (1)
- "I've always been an entrepreneur, even early on." (1)
- "I've got a television, I put it on only when there's a game on." (1)
- "The idea was, if it doesn't go, we're young, we can always go to work." (1)
- "If it wasn't our business, I wouldn't do it." (1)
- "If they were still running the foundry, I think I'd still be there." (1)
- "If you are going to be an attorney, you're going to have obstacles, you're going to fight them; I've fought them all my life." (1)
- "If you drive a truck everyday, you have some type of feeling for it because that's what you depend on." (1)
- "If you give me a garment, I can tell you how to make it, how much it will cost." (1)
- "If you want to run a business and make a success of it, you must be friendly." (1)
- The importance of grinding your own cutting tools (1)
- "The important thing is she doesn't spend time on the streets, I know when I call her she's there." (1)
- Important things to know to do well as a garment worker. (1)
- "In a big business, people don't take the time to show you how to do things." (1)
- "In my mind's eye, we're trying not to be custom." (1)
- "In our section there's a mixture -- we have Arabs, we have Hispanics, we have Italians, we have Blacks." (1)
- "In the Dominican Republic 10, 15 years ago, they didn't have a lot of factories, so women had to work in the house." (1)
- "In the eigth grade I was working in a barber shop." (1)
- "In this business you cannot get rich, but you can make a good living on your own." (1)
- "In those days the criminals were drunks and people that didn't pay their child support and stuff like that, but there were no really hard, hard criminals like today." (1)
- "In those days you had to fight to survive, but I made it." (1)
- "Industry-wide, business was good. No one knew what recession was in those days." (1)
- Introducing the Hot Texas Wiener to the Public (1)
- "It doesn't take long to be very aware of what type of personality you're dealing with." (1)
- "It was a family business started in the '20s." (1)
- "It was a very busy area, and it was a mix of people." (1)
- "It was a very wonderful town, full of life and energy." (1)
- "It was an after hours restaurant." (1)
- "It was an industrial community in every sense of the word." (1)
- "It was different back then." (1)
- "It was her responsibility to peel the potatoes and put them on the stove, and then she would prepare dinner for the kids." (1)
- "It was interesting, you know? You finish one lot you've got a new style to do." (1)
- "It was rough, but we made it." (1)
