Polly Bergen Quotes

I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.

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

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

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

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.

I often think what it was like not to have much money. I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The poor should not have to learn how to be frugal and the rich should not have to learn to be extravagant.

I grew up in a lot of different places. I always saw the bigger picture. I was around rich kids with country houses and private jets. No disrespect to those people, but I never thought they were super geniuses. I couldn't see how I wasn't going to have those things, too.

A lot of people around me were really staggeringly rich, which I never have been. I walked in between the raindrops of real money, but I've stayed happy.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

Money can't buy poverty.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off.

I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

I didn't know I was poor, growing up, because everyone was in the same boat. I couldn't have bikes. It never really bothered me, but I could have any book. I loved school; I loved learning. Yeah, I never cared for possessions. I still don't, really.

It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.