James Gray Quotes

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at least in public. Nobody wants the stigma of being thought poor.

You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

The rich - they just live in another realm, really.

Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

Celebrities are nowhere as rich as some people think they are.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

I often say that poverty needs no passport to travel.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.

This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

Ironically, for the mega-rich, recession brings with it the ability to live well at a lower cost and with less of a hassle.