Nelson Algren Quotes

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

I am not joking when I state that I remained uneducated because I could not afford education.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

We've all got to get away from this idea that the big money's still around.

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'

I toured a lot in the U.K. and Europe solo for a lack of funds, really. I left people I'd been playing with for years at home, just because I couldn't afford it.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

My biggest challenges when I first started out were not having a computer or camera or Wi-Fi! The computer and the camera had to be borrowed, and there were times that I used the computer at the library, and I literally sat outside people's houses to steal their Internet connections.

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

My dad was born with no money.

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.

I had to let go of many things because we did not have much money growing up. Like joining the Film Institute in Pune or learning the piano.

When I was a student, I couldn't afford anything.

Having money isn't everything, not having it is.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

It was shocking to realize how many low-income Americans don't have savings accounts.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.