Willem de Kooning Quotes

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.'

Very few people can afford to be poor.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

My parents didn't have any money.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

I didn't have money growing up.

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

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

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

We had plenty of clothes and no money.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

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