Edwin Louis Cole Quotes

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

When you go to places like Gary and Detroit, you see the economic problem in this country and who it's really affecting.

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.

My parents weren't rich at all.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford the effort of taking thought for the day after tomorrow; just as the highly prosperous are conservative because they have small occasion to be discontented with the situation as it stands today.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Being poor is only romantic in books.

Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

Poverty - the one thing money can't buy

Poverty is no disgrace. But it is certainly not a recommendation.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

Poverty has strange bedfellows.