Martin Lewis Perl Quotes

In the Depression especially, I think you learn to face problems and not run away from them.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

We in New York were very poor in the depths of the Depression - but I must say, that was the best time of my life.

I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'

I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things.

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

I practice on the roads of Gaza as we don't have good stadiums and tracks so I gave my best.

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

I grew up poor.

When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee.

A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.