Tammy Bruce Quotes

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

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

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

A thousand emigrants per day still leaving from our Irish ports, most of them with money. The runaway farmers have learned the trick of thrashing out their corn by night, leaving the straw neatly cocked, selling off stock and furniture and bolting, with heavy arrears due to the ruined landlords.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

I think the guys who are sort of infantry in Somali piracy are not unlike low-level drug dealers in urban areas in America, who see it as, you know, not having many other options. I think it comes down to money and needing to survive.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

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.'

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

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.

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

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

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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.

The couple of years before I was declared bankrupt were the roughest. The bank letters, the pressure, the stress was awful. You're in this twilight zone of not knowing where your life is going, and yet you're in Westlife. Everything was great with the band. I was earning money, and it looked good.