Caitlin Moran Quotes

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

My dad always supported me. Sometimes we didn't have anything to eat for breakfast, but if we could eat lunch and dinner, we weren't poor.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.

In prosperity remember adversity.

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

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

There's always going to be somebody worse off than me.

Difficult times often bring out the best in people.

You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

My background wasn't one blessed with all the luxuries in life. Nothing is forever and I realize that.

My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.

I want to be a good human being.

The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

George Clooney is a super-human, he's just such an amazing human being, he taught me how to be a better person and a better actor!

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.

I come from nothing. I come from sleeping in the kitchen with my family with the oven open to keep us warm during winter, you know? When you come from that background, all this extra stuff is just... extra stuff, you know?

I come from nothing.

We were rather poor, but we always had what we needed.

I've always felt very blessed and lucky in the world, and I have great compassion for people who struggle to get through the day.