Rachel Brosnahan Quotes

No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

A hungry man is not a free man.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

No American should have to choose between heating and eating.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy.

Too often, low-income Americans must choose between paying for medicine and having their heat shut off.

You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

We came from nothing really. One house. Ten people. Even days the lights was off. The worst days was not eating. Surviving off rice and toast.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

I would take vouchers, do sums in my head just to get some eggs and bread or a tin of cheap Irish stew. I'd be starving and want two tins but couldn't afford it. The poorer you are the hungrier you feel.

Whatever people's backgrounds or values, a society where more and more people face a daily struggle to house, clothe and even feed themselves and their families cannot possibly be the answer.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

Thirteen thousand dollars a year is not enough to raise a family. That's not enough to pay your bills and save for their future. That's barely enough to provide for even the most basic needs.

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.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

It's often hard for us to imagine going without some of our luxuries like travel, dining out, or Internet, much less our basic necessities like food and water. But try for a minute to imagine how life would be with such deprivations.

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.