Elena Delle Donne Quotes

As a single parent, it can really be tough if the father's not in the picture much. Physically, emotionally and financially, you are trying to be there for your child and it can really get on top of you.

I have seven children. Even if you got a lot of money, feeding 5, 6, 7, 8 mouths, it will do some damage to your pocket.

Kids don't come cheap.

I'm poor, not homeless.

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

Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that?

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.

Money is always a pressure.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

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 took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

My parents didn't have any money.

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

You have to pay the bills when you're a single mum.

I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make.

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

When I was younger, trying to afford football camps, my parents would sometimes have to miss bills. They sacrificed these things for me because they saw I had a goal.

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.

Pressure is a man that is wondering how he's going to feed his five kids today.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

I'm an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to her schedule.