Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes

There's a foot race between gas bills and paychecks.

Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

The economics of life is against the family.

we are slaves to the cost of living.

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

The cost of living keeps going up, although death is surprisingly affordable.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

People are trying to figure out how to pay bills and make ends meet. They don't want to turn on the TV and say, 'What is this crap?'

Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.

When you have a family, or even when you're just seeing a girl, it's difficult to be skint.

I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.

There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energy away from me. It was always in the back of my mind that I had to do it, and I couldn't count on anybody. There was no one around to pay for me to get through life.

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.