Orrin Hatch Quotes

I don't come from money.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

I don't come from a lot of money.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

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 didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

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

We didn't grow up rich people.

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.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

I've been poor most of my life.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

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

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.

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.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.