Tobin Heath Quotes

… 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

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.

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

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

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

I didn't have money growing up.

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.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

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.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

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

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

We had plenty of clothes and 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.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.