Ray Bradbury Quotes

We're living in hard times.

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

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally experience through the lives of friends, family, neighbors, colleagues. I'd venture to say it's a rare person in 2013 America who knows nobody who lost a job in the recession, or knows nobody whose home went underwater or who went into foreclosure.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

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.

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.

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

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.

I grew up poor.

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

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.

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's unlikely you'll have a thousand pounds or so to spare.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

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.

My parents were not professionals. They were products of the Depression.