Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people's places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.

I was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

My parents didn't have any money.

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

We have hardly enough money to last till the end of March.

Probably the easiest thing would be to vasectimize males at the age of 13 after freezing some of their sperm. Then you could unfreeze it only after they have enough money to support a child up to the age of 18.

My mother had various jobs, from where she was regularly fired as politically undesirable. I often saw her crying and mumbling that we'll starve to death.

I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

Moms that get evicted are depressed and have higher rates of depressive symptoms two years later. That has to affect their interactions with their kids and their sense of happiness. You add all that together, and it's just really obvious to me that eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house.

It's very hard being a mother or father and not being able to provide for your family. Your job as a parent is to keep them safe and protect them, and when aspects of that are taken away it puts these people in an awful situation.

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.

I need to work to support myself and my kids. No one pays for my support.