Tommy Chong Quotes

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

You know, when you need drugs and you don't have a lot of money, what you'll do is you'll hang out with people who will give you drugs. Right?

African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

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

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

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.'

It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

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

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

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 background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

Poverty brings one blessing in Turkey - the poor man is of necessity a monogamist.