Russell Kirk Quotes

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

I'm poor, not homeless.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

I didn't get to train because I was raised by a single mom. There were three of us and it was just too expensive to pay for me to do martial arts practice.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Being dead broke is the Root of all Evil.

Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.

Beggars can't be choosers. We don't have all the money in the world. So anyone who wants to be in the band and be broke - that's their own death wish.

Being broke is against my religion.

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

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

Money is a never-ending problem.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

There's only so much that you can tighten your belt before you squeeze yourself to death.

We were pretty cash-strapped for all those years when I took over.

I have no regrets about being poor.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.