Angela Yee Quotes

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.

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

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

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

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

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.

I've been poor most of my life.

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.

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 didn't have any money.

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

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

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

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.

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

We didn't grow up rich people.

I was poor my whole life.

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.

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

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

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.