Jodi Lyn O'Keefe Quotes

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, the more affluent have usually worked harder than the less affluent.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

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 was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that.

The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

I don't care if it's a white millionaire kid from Oxfordshire who comes to my show, buys my record, supports me and rates me. It's cool.

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.

I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.

For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

I've never known a lot of rich people. It's not my bag.

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.

I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich.