McG Quotes

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

I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

My mother and father were lovely parents, always quite hard up, but very hard-working.

We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.'

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine.

I learned how to live on five and sometimes ten dollars a week.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

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.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

A lot of mothers want to be with their children. They can't afford it for this reason or that reason.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

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

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

I was very poor when I was young.

We slept in the park before we had a house, and eventually we shared a home - my parents, my grandparents and five uncles, my family, all of us - on White Oaks Street by Magnolia Street near the railroad. Those were hard times, but I loved living there.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.