Ben Harney Quotes

For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

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.

I grew up poor.

I want lots of kids and I want a garden and I hope to stay married to my husband. I hope to be working in some way that fulfils me.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

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

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I'm a family man, and I couldn't be happier. My wife and I have been blessed with an incredible family, and my kids are my life.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

I've got a home. I've got a wife. I've got everything I need.

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 am a simple guy, most of the time I am with my family, my wife and my son. I like to be with them and they make me happy.

I've lived in poverty.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.