Frank McCourt Quotes

I was one of the poorest people in America.

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

Money can't buy poverty.

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

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.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

Poverty causes crime.

Wealth is far away. Poverty is near.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

We need to truly understand what economic injustice and inequality looks like for hard-working Canadians grappling with it every day on the ground, at home and at work.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

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.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

We've got to take care of the poor.

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.