Patti Smith Quotes

I don't come from money.

My parents didn't have any money.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

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.

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.

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

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

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

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.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

I didn't have money growing up.

I've been poor most of my life.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

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

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

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.'

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

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.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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.