Sylvia Sidney Quotes

I wasn't rich.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

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 was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money.

My parents didn't have any money.

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?

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

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

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

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we needed.

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

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

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

I am definitely not rich.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends meet. I had no way to support myself.

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

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