Joel Salatin Quotes

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

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

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

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

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

I didn't have money growing up.

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

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

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

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 was raised really poor and so was my husband.

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?'

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.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

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

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I wasn't rich.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.