Stockard Channing Quotes

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

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

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.'

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

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

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

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

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

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

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

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

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I've worked with and talked to poor people my entire life, being in the pawn shop business.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

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

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

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.