Dick Van Dyke Quotes

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

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

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I know what poverty is.

None of my friends were ever as broke as I was.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

I've lived in poverty.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

I've been poor most of my life.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.