Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact, I'm able to keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income that I don't need, while a parent out there who is struggling to figure out how to send their kid to college suddenly finds that they've got a couple thousand dollars less in grants or student loans.

The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.

Let me give you really bad news, and I'm sure people will demonize me for saying this: the rich are always gonna be with us. They will always be with us. There are rich people in Cuba. There are rich people in Venezuela. You pick the policies, and the rich are gonna figure it out. They're always gonna be rich.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The rich are few everywhere, the poor many.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

I wish our wallet could match our warmth.

When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Our nation’s political spectrum is not left to right, but top to bottom. People can locate themselves on this rich-to-poor pole for this is not a theoretical positioning: It’s based on our actual experience with money and power.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.