Holly Madison Quotes

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

There was years when my father didn't even make a hundred grand - or barely made a hundred grand - and sure, we had a maid, but she only came twice a week. What do you think happened the other five days? You think those dishes washed themselves? You think those clothes got themselves in the hamper?

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

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

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 don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.

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

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

I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I come from a working class background, it wasn't easy for me at all, but I worked hard.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I didn't have money growing up.

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

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.

I have come from a background where I haven't had lots of money to put me on the map. I've had to work very hard for what I've got.

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

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

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 never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

Very few people can afford to be poor.