George Washington Quotes

I don't care if I starve.

I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.

Sire, have pity on the Spanish infantry, which, for lack of pay and out of sheer starvation, is scouring the low country round, plundering the peasantry in mere need of food. These disorders I cannot repress, much less can I punish them, for necessity has no law.

Not much shall be feared nor expected from a people whose principal ministers, principal merchants, and principal generals consume day after day smoking tobacco and playing at chess, while the citizens and soldiers are sauntering in rags, sleeping against walls, or praying away their lives …. Such is the military and such the industry of Barbary.

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

There is no dignity without work. You can't tell someone who has nothing to eat to stay patient.

We had to grow up very fast. There never was a day when there wasn't shouting about the bills.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

I come from a poor background, I've seen struggle. Money will come and go, but I will continue to be grounded.

I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.

Gary is a really impoverished town; it's in industrial decay. There's low employment and things of that nature.

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

Larry and I didn't have two nickels together when we got engaged.

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

I didn't choose this career for money. When I started training, I did it because I liked it, and I never had money for anything in my life.

I didn't have money growing up.

I make an excellent salary and work a great job. A lot of the people who voted for Trump don't. Let's say you say you're out of a job and believe this guy is going to get you on back on your feet. You might overlook some stuff not because you believe it. But you're that desperate. They're wrong. But it's what they believe.

I've been broke my whole life, you get what I'm saying? I'm scared of the bank.

I'm a single mother. It's silly to turn down work.

I was a really bad single mum. I used to go to the supermarket just for somewhere to go.

No one walks into a food bank with their head held high.