Buzz Aldrin Quotes

When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.

We didn't grow up rich people.

People don't get it; they think I'm rich. I'm not! I have no money.

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

I wasn't rich.

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

My parents didn't have any money.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I don't come from a lot of money.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

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.

My parents weren't rich at all.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

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

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

I'm not rich.

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

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.