Bob Hope Quotes

I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

There were moments that Bobby and I would come offstage after performing in front of 20,000 people and say, 'Wow, how did that happen?' It's been a blessed life.

We were very poor, and I entered a talent contest as a young teenager because if you entered, even if you didn't win, they gave you a free blouse.

I was doing a lot of great theatre, but I just couldn't work out how to make ends meet.

We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

There are a lot of myths about food banks, but the truth is that many people are increasingly having to turn to them just to put food on the table, including many in work.

We barely had lights, but my mom always made sure we had food on the table and somewhere to sleep.

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.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re even happy, because at least you’ve got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want. Not that all who perish from want absolutely die of hunger; though this calamity is of more frequent occurrence than is generally supposed.

Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

We grew up as poor people but we never knew poverty. I still love and miss the Somalia I grew up in. Things changed, when my father became a diplomat later on.

Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

Being broke is against my religion.