Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Modesty is of no use to a beggar.

I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition.

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When they think of suffering, they think of abuse - physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, that kind of thing. There's different levels of suffering. I don't think that it has to do with how much money you have - if you were raised in the ghetto or the Hamptons. For me it's more about perception: self-perception and how you perceive the world.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

I just hated poverty.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

Broke is temporary, poor is eternal.

I wasn't going to have enough money to pay for a Good Lifestyle, which meant I'd feel ashamed, which meant I'd get depressed, and that was the big one because I knew what that did to me: it made it so I wouldn't get out of bed, which led to the ultimate thing—homelessness. If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away.