Vikings Quotes

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

Growing up, I didn't have a lot and always wanted things. But I was too prideful to ask for anything; I always worked for it.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Until a person has a home, they are always going to be dependent upon the system.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

I would rather clean than beg.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

For many young women, the dream of independence and a home of their own is a tantalising goal, while a lifetime devoted solely to catering for another person's needs would be hard to countenance.

But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

I prefer to stay poor.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.