Toby Young Quotes

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's unlikely you'll have a thousand pounds or so to spare.

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'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

I had panels - roundtables in the district - and the stories that were told are really difficult to accept. People who have diabetes who can't get insurance because of a preexisting condition; others who were laid off and the have no place to turn.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.

People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.