Immanuel Velikovsky Quotes

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

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

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

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.

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

There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.

I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

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

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

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

I grew up poor.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

My parents were hardworking. They made every penny stretch as far as possible. That was probably the major reason everything they gave me was always two or three sizes too large.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

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

I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.