Julian Castro Quotes

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn't have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

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.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

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.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

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

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

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

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

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

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

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

My family were really poor.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

The typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty: it's someone who has a cash flow problem.

I've known what it's like to survive without a steady job. Growing up in the Philippines, I watched my parents juggle part-time jobs at the corner shop and as tailors, barely able to make ends meet for my three brothers and me.