Aaron Neville Quotes

We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

For some reason I am one of those people who act like they were born and raised during the Depression.

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

My mother could make something out of nothing - and everything started from scratch.

I'm happy without money.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.

I grew up learning to do more with less.

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

My material life is simple.

Me, I don't need money.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.