Susan Kelechi Watson Quotes

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

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

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.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

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.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

I grew up poor.

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.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

I didn't have life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I've lived in poverty.

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.

We were poor and lived modestly, but we always had food on the table.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

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