Julie Klausner Quotes

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.

Truman didn't have enough money to make a radio speech.

The laboring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present necessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

I didn't have money growing up.

There ain't nobody who's got enough money to put my back in the ring.

When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.

Niggas wit no money act like money isn't everything.

The opposite of Prosperity is not poverty. It is anxiety.

Money is only important when you don't have any.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.

I don't even get an allowance.

Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.