Nicholas Sparks Quotes

My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

Given this voice, I know it does sound like I've come from money. But my dad was Canadian and my mum Hungarian, so it's not like I have some high-society, upper-class English background.

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

Money doesn't transform a person - the only thing that can is love.

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.

I could never fall in love just for money. I like my co-stars, and they are a bunch of good-looking men. But I've dated an actor. My dream man has to be a lot more than just good looking and rich!

You give the money where you want it.

I definitely don't think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up. We were comfortable, but I didn't go to Oxbridge, and yet every American interviewer I get says to me, 'You're related to Charles II! Your grandfather was a baronet!' And it's infuriating, because that is a part of my history, but you're trying to turn me into a posh boy, and I'm not.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.

There was a perception that I'd grown up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I met Peter O'Toole for the first time at Dad's memorial service because my Dad didn't hang around with people like that when we were around. We didn't grow up with Richard Burton coming around to tea.

I'm fortunate enough that my dad was well-off, my family was well-off, so we're able to go to private schools and stuff like that.

I wouldn't say I grew up with a silver spoon. Yeah, I was very fortunate. I have a great family.

Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.