Steph Houghton Quotes

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

Let's face it - being a nurse, a single mom of eight kids, I would not be able to provide for them in any way shape or form.

There was years when my father didn't even make a hundred grand - or barely made a hundred grand - and sure, we had a maid, but she only came twice a week. What do you think happened the other five days? You think those dishes washed themselves? You think those clothes got themselves in the hamper?

I had a job to take care of my parents, to take care of some bills at the house, because my daddy wasn't working. I had to figure out how to make that all work at one time. I was working at Boston Market... I told my coach, 'I can't play football because I have to make money to help my mom.'

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

I merely consider myself a father, and one role of a father is to provide financial resources for his family.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

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.

My dad was a tree surgeon. When I was younger, he was working away five days a week for weeks on end, just trying to get as much money.

We were definitely not rich, but we were not poor. My mum always came home from work and did everything so that we ate well.

My parents worked hard, sometimes two jobs, to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

My mother lost her job, so I left school to work full-time to support her.

While I was in university, my father became very ill and my father was unable to work. We needed to pay the bills, so in my 20s I became the sole income earner in my family.

My mom, Cheryl, worked two jobs to support me. She really helped the family stay together.

We barely had lights, but my mom always made sure we had food on the table and somewhere to sleep.

On New Year's Day 2008 I had two bailiffs turn up on my doorstep and because I had so little income I had not been paying bills, and I respect the concept of paying bills, I'm very much in favour of it, I just couldn't quite get it together.

I've tasted the dirt side. I've tasted being broke. I've been in the dumps, I've lived in motels as a kid. I want a different opportunity for my children. I never want them to see those things.

We were in the position after our sextuplets were born that we could not pay our bills. We did the show to provide a better life for them.

You want to have the best life for your family.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

As a mother, I - like everyone else - have to fill my gas tank in my car. I have to feed my family. I have to be able to make sure that I can keep a roof over their heads and, with things escalating the way they are, it's very difficult. People are losing their homes.

I have a family to feed.