Jaime Harrison Quotes

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

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

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.

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

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.

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.

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

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

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

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

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

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

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.

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.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I grew up poor.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.