Rebecca Ferguson Quotes

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

My parents didn't have any money.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

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

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

We were under a lot of financial pressure when I was growing up.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

The problem was money and the indignities of life without it. Every stroller, cell phone, Yankees cap, and SUV he saw was a torment. He wasn't covetous, he wasn't envious. But without money he was hardly a man.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

It's very hard for me to get a new car. It's really hard for me to get a new house. It's really hard for me to move on from the things that give me stability.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.