Bonnie Jo Campbell Quotes

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

A lot of unemployed families were moved to Hastings, and places were built for them. They're communities of unemployed people. It's been difficult dealing with that.

We are not strangers to poverty in New Mexico.

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

It's heartbreaking to think that the joy of building a family is being dimmed by the economic squeeze young people are feeling.

I've been poor most of my life.

I grew up in a household where a missed day of work meant bills were not paid, I've lived through the stress that confronts many South Carolina families.

There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.

My family, like many families here in South Carolina, have faced difficult financial situations.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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

The middle income families in America have been crushed over the last four years.

My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

You know, our country's being ripped apart. And let me tell you, this is largely an economic issue, too. You know that workers, hard-working people, middle class people, haven't had a salary increase effectively in 12 years, all right? So for 12 years, they're making less now in many cases than they made 12 years ago.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.