Douglas Brinkley Quotes

A lot of people in this business are born with money or family connections.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

I come from a very affluent family. I have been educated in one of the finest institutions of the world. Money was never a factor in my life: by the grace of God, I was blessed with a golden spoon.

I'm fortunate enough that my dad was well-off, my family was well-off, so we're able to go to private schools and stuff like that.

I'm blessed, I can afford to send my children to private school.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry.

I appreciated being rich because it allowed me to study in Paris and Geneva.

The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.

I come from money. I'm not going to deny that.

My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I never had any trust funds of any kind, though my dad did pay my tuition at Harvard, which was quite expensive.

I'm not a Mike Bloomberg billionaire.

I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades.

You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

The substitute for knowledge is money.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.

I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.

If money doesn’t make any difference, how come the rich spend so much on their schools?