Bobby Bones 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.

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

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

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

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.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.

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

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people's places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.

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.

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Being poor sucks... It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

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.

There are people with no high school education who are poor. but there are also university graduates on food bank lines. There are people who are poor because they have made bad choices, gotten addicted to drugs, burned bridges with friends and family — and then there are people who have never taken a drug in their lives, who have huge social networks, and who still can’t make ends meet.

I've never felt fully able to sustain myself because I've run out of money many, many times, and it's been scary.

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

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

Many families teeter on the edges, not qualifying for the little support on offer, unwilling to seek it for fear of drawing attention to a household barely holding the pieces together, or hit by unexpected bills.

When I was very young, I had to start to working to help my family, while my friends were studying. Since then, I have felt the urgency to escape from every dependency situation.