Ryan Paevey Quotes

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

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.

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

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

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.'

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

I come from a poor family.

I don't come from money.

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

I don't come from a lot of money.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I didn't have money growing up.

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

I've been poor most of my life.

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

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.