Tom Jones Quotes

My parents got married when they were 16, and they never had any money.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

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

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.'

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

I'm basically a starving artist.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

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

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

My parents didn't have any money.

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.

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

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

I was one of the poorest people in America.

We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.

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