Simone Elkeles Quotes

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work and contemplation don't mix, and university days ought to be days of contemplation.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Money is a never-ending problem.

My parents didn't have any money.

I've been poor most of my life.

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

In these tough economic times, everybody has to cut back. I am down to three tabs of ecstasy a day.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

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

It is hard to apply oneself to study when there is no money to pay for food and lodging. I almost never explain these things when folks are asking me why I don't do this or that.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

Being broke is against my religion.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.