Linda Colley Quotes

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.

My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money.

Layer upon layer, Italy's storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster's captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative.

A lot of time, when you're poor and you ain't got but 15, 20 bucks in your pocket - if you can't change your shoes, you can change your look with a haircut.

'Speechless' is first and foremost a show about a family that doesn't have a ton of money, but they move into a really crappy house in a really nice neighborhood so their kids can go to a nice school.

With my mom and dad around, I became a child yet again.

I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house.

Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go to trial.

Even when my mum used to edit the paper she would come home, put us to bed and then go back to the office. She must have been exhausted. She worked on Sunday papers so I always had her on Mondays. I loved Mondays! She would always be waiting for me outside school. I remember feeling very loved.

My family is Jamaican and Cuban, but we would go to see our Jamaican side every summer for three months and every Christmas. One of the things I used to love was climbing trees and picking ackee fruit for breakfast.

I grew up in a single-family detached house. My parents are wonderful.

I have great memories from childhood. Of course, the divorce, when I was 11, was tough. But my mom, especially, did a great job in raising us.

My kids would watch from the window and wave to me during batting practice.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I love Rome and the way that you can wander around and find something interesting around every street corner. You can smell the history.

I have been singing since the time I was two. My mom says I would sing Gujarati songs with my grandmother when I was a kid.

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.

I was angry because I see other kids with things that I wanted: they had good parents, they had clothes, they always had food and extra money, and I wasn't one of those kids.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable to afford a single thing.

I started out playing football in the streets, playing barefoot like all the boys there - we didn't have the money for football boots.

When a family is poor, everyone is poor, and there is huge solidarity. People will take a bullet for you. But when one makes it, it is like you owe everyone.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

I grew up listening to everybody.