Emma Goldman Quotes

I'm not a materialistic person.

I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine.

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really mean anything to me. If a lot of money came my way, I'm certainly not going to say no. But it hasn't come my way as yet, and I'm not heartbroken.

I think I was raised by a very humble mother, who, if anything, is probably over skeptical. She has that sense of everything being a bonus: like, you have your lot, and anything else is on top. She's quietly proud, and quietly humble.

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don't want big cars, I don't want big hotel rooms.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Life is not about money.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

To me, the simplest things can have the highest value.