Brian Banks Quotes

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

A scene of misery and gloomy despair of a community of people who have been plunged abruptly from prosperity to a complete want of the most essential things of life.

I saw tough times, and there were many nights when I would just cry out aloud.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

When I was young I lost everything.

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

I knew when I left school, my stomach would probably hurt from having nothing to eat, and I would be going back to those same circumstances that were breaking me.

I know what it is to have nothing.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

I know that my life is going to be hell from here on.

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.