Brian Lara Quotes

We lived in a farm village, and no one could afford to buy a car or to fly. We were envious. We couldn't afford any toys. I couldn't imagine making a real car.

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.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

This is a third world environment.

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

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

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Truman didn't have enough money to make a radio speech.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.

Now we've got lots of freedom and no money.

Poverty fills armies, mans navies.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

I'm a poor person who has money.

My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don't evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.

Poverty is the root of all evil.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.