Phil Robertson Quotes

I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were very, very poor, but we always managed to have enough to keep our bellies full.

During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.

I know what it feels like to be broke and alone, and I don't ever want my loved ones to see that or know what it's like.

It is better to live under a tree in a jungle inhabited by tigers and elephants, to maintain oneself in such a place with ripe fruits and spring water, to lie down on grass and to wear the ragged barks of trees than to live amongst one's relations when reduced to poverty.

Ultimately, I think people are so hopeful for having some joy in life that is really hard to find. You can't make a living, and the idea of doing one small bank robbery or something, just trying to find your way in a life, finding your footing and ending up behind bars.

Forget Jack, I'm in love with the cold, dirt floor.

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

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.

We had to leave Norway and go where it was all happening, which was London. We loved it there, but it was hard. We had no money - we were literally starving. It started to get ugly.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

I kept auditioning, with no savings and no money, credit card debt gaining interest. I went on unemployment. I bought ramen noodles at dollar stores. I never had to - God forbid - live on the streets.

My mother really struggled when we were young. She was on food stamps and welfare. Looking back, I know we didn't have a lot, but I never felt I was at a loss for anything.

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

I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

I've been traveling a lot, and I'm seeing a lot of desperation everywhere in America. A lot of sad desperation.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing...You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.