Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

The misery of the people here is very great, the beggars innumerable and increasing everyday…One half of the people in Ireland eat neither bread nor flesh for one half of the year, nor wear Shoes or Stockings; your Hogs in England and Essex Calves lie and live better than they.

I've lived in poverty.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

People are overweight and starving at the same time. It's a tragedy for both the individual and society.

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

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

I didn't have money growing up.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I was poor my whole life.

I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

Sometimes, we didn't have enough to eat. I'd go to school with no lunch money, and my school would have to provide it.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

When I booked 'This Is Us,' I had 81 cents in my bank account.

When I was 19 or 20 years old, I wasn't making a living wrestling. I needed a full-time income.

I know what it's like to be on public assistance and to be unemployed. And I know what it's like to be evicted.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

My father emigrated from Poland and my mother from Romania. There was no affluence in my family.

I've been poor most of my life.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.