Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

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

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

My parents didn't have any money.

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.

They say that money is not everything. I say that when you don't have any, it is everything.

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

I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.

We sometime didn't get enough to buy oats for our horses. Most banks had very little money in them.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.

Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

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.'

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.

I've known the panic of financial struggle. I didn't grow up with money at all, and my family has certainly known the panic of, 'Oh, gosh, where's the next bit of money coming from?'

I've never had money before in my life. Ever. Never, ever.