Pittance Quotes

What they'd be saving on pensions is a pittance. - Roger Toussaint

What the government gave is a pittance. To reconstruct my home I need about 200,000 rupees. Now because of the quake I cannot work in my farms. The choice is between going hungry and making a house. So we decided to spend as little on the house and keep the rest for emergency rations. - Abdul Rashid

Shop around, since there's no need to pay some of these fees when the bank across the street doesn't charge them. Also look for free non-interest checking, not an account whose interest is a pittance and requires a higher balance and higher monthly service charge. - Greg McBride

Life for these Jewish gauchos was very hard. They had no tractors, suffered from locusts and made a pittance of a living - so my father went to find work in Rosario, married there and eventually brought the whole family over. - Felix Umansky

It's kind of a sad commentary that our government can squander money all over the world and they can't give a pittance to the few of us that are left for a little recognition. That's the sad part. - Grady Howell

It's absolute tokenism ... it's a pittance. - Schapelle Corby

It's a catch-22 that has resulted in farm foresters right around Australia selling their mature plantation trees to sawmills for a pittance in stumpage returns. - Andrew Lang

It wasn't the money that was important. It was the principle, the statement to be made, and this pittance amount of money is a statement that there is something to be paid. - Emily Lyons

If they don't step up to the plate and start negotiating, not with a take it or leave it offer that's a pittance, but with real money that is representative of their ability to pay ... we are going to walk away from these meetings. - Mel Weiss

I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and being paid a pittance, and sort of scrounging by in New York and sleeping on a chair that folded out into a bed. Ive always had sort of a guiding passion, which has been acting, since I was a kid, which Britta doesnt have, but I definitely had that struggle: 'Am I gonna pay my rent? Am I going to be able to have this as a career?' I relate to that. And I relate to having this idea of yourself, the person that you want to be, and falling short of it. So all of that, I can relate to. - Gillian Jacobs