Luka Modric Quotes

I grew up very nice. But after college, my father said you're on you own. So I was dead broke for years. So I know what it's - I lived on 600 dollars a month for six years. I know what it's like to be dead broke. I feel bad for people who are struggling now.

I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

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

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.

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

I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don't know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me.

When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would carry around the house with me. I mean, really. No furniture, no money, and I was hoping to be an actor, but I could never get a job.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would do if they didn't have the rent money. Luckily, we were never evicted. But my father was unemployed most of the time.

When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

When I was in senior year of high school, my mom lost her job, we lost our house, and we had to move in with my uncle and my aunt.

I come from a poor background, I've seen struggle. Money will come and go, but I will continue to be grounded.