Mary Stewart Quotes

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that we were cutting out coupons and buying dented cans because they were cheaper. And all our furniture was from the garbage. It was just - and to me because I was a kid, all that stuff was really exciting.

They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

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

When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.

Most people fall upon tough times at some point.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

I've been poor most of my life.

I know what hard times are like. I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I've had struggles.

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

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.