John Tiffany Quotes

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

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

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor.

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

Upon the state falls directly the ... burden of the demoralization of its citizenry and of the social unrest which attend destitution and the denial of opportunity.

A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.

When I was in senior year of high school, my mom lost her job, we lost our house, and we had to move in with my uncle and my aunt.

It was a very difficult time after the fall of the Soviet Union. Jobs were difficult, and you had to fight to have anything nice.

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

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live in poverty, they have a certain sense of hope they can get out of it. If there are no jobs, there's no hope. And bad things come from that.

There are going to be a lot of problems with social cohesion. We are already cutting down everything to the bone. Unless there is light at the end of the tunnel.

During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.

You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.

What do you think this very difficult situation will push? Especially in the hearts of those who are facing the starvation, facing the unemployment, facing this siege, facing the tragedy of their families - the poverty of their families. Some of them, they didn't find food to eat. What do you expect from them? In spite of death, our people are still patient. But patience has limits.

Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.

Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

Poverty is a plague against which humanity must fight without cease.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.