Nicholas Sparks Quotes

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

The rich are different from us.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

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.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the fields right along with the men. When your survival is at stake, you don't have these questions about yourself like middle-class women do.

Women are men without money.

All of us kids in the neighbourhood had to go shoeless for the same reason - all except the landlord's son, because his father had more income.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the homes of the kids I went to school with. I had to go to the back doors to make the deliveries. It was embarrassing. That was one thing out of a hundred.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all wear pretty much the same anymore. It's by looking into their eyes and seeing whether they look into yours, and seeing what kind of teeth they have.

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

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

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

Money can't buy poverty.