Taylor Caldwell Quotes

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

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

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

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

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I know what poverty is.

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

I've lived in poverty.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

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.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

I grew up poor.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Poverty makes slaves of free men.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.