Loretta Lynn Quotes

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

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

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

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

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

I've been poor most of my life.

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

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

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.'

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

What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot even afford to buy tickets to operas or concerts in which they themselves perform?

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

I come from a poor family.