Michael T. Flynn Quotes

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we needed.

We lived in a farm village, and no one could afford to buy a car or to fly. We were envious. We couldn't afford any toys. I couldn't imagine making a real car.

I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.

In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

I have a few toys. But I live very simply.

I do come from fairly humble beginnings.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

We lived in just a studio apartment with just a room and a bed that came out of the wall, and my mom couldn't afford even a Happy Meal. We ate Top Ramen. I had no toys, and I had, like, two shirts, a pair of jeans, and that was it. But I had my mom to myself, and I remember it being the coolest period of time. I loved it. I really loved it.

Growing up, we never really had money. If I wanted to get something, I had to go out and get a job.

I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.

I never grew up with money, and I never wanted a lot of material things.

I would take vouchers, do sums in my head just to get some eggs and bread or a tin of cheap Irish stew. I'd be starving and want two tins but couldn't afford it. The poorer you are the hungrier you feel.

When I was a little kid, me and all my family lived in a house the size of my daughter's room.

I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.

Me personally, I come from very, very humble beginnings - little, small town in Alabama, you know, staying at my granddaddy house. We really didn't have nothing.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

When we were growing up we only got two pairs of shoes every year. With me, I was lucky because I got three pairs of shoes, the third were basketball shoes: Black Air Force Ones, White Air Force Ones, and boots for the winter.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.