Sidney Sheldon Quotes

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

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

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

I just hated poverty.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

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

I know what poverty is.

What we're saying is that if you are poor, you can die.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

I was very poor when I was young.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

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

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

And when you're poor, you grow up fast.

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today.