Jon Jones Quotes

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I've been poor most of my life.

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.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

My parents didn't have any money.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

I didn't have money growing up.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

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

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

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

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

I come from a poor family.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

I grew up poor.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.