Jennifer Love Hewitt Quotes

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.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

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

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.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

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.'

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

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

Very few people can afford to be poor.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.

We've all got to get away from this idea that the big money's still around.

Money can't buy poverty.

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

'Up in the Air' may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, 'The Grapes of Wrath,' did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.

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.