Eric Dickerson Quotes

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

My parents didn't have any money.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

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

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I didn't have money growing up.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Poverty affects people of all races.

Money can't buy poverty.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.