Tony Finau Quotes

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

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

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

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

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

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.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need: it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden. As kids, we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

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

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

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in 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.'

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

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.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

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

My parents didn't have any money.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.