Nigel Hamilton Quotes

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.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

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.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

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

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

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

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

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

I don't come from money.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

My parents didn't have any money.

I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage - maybe I carry a little chip on my shoulder with just how tough it was for my parents to overcome some of those financial situations.

Coming from where I come from, I didn't have the luxury of having a trust fund. Or money from generations. Or the luxury of hoppin' into the family business, you know?

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

There ain't nobody who's got enough money to put my back in the ring.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

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