Keith O'Brien Quotes

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.

Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of me or my early life. It can all be condensed into a single sentence, and that sentence you will find in Gray's Elegy : "The short and simple annals of the poor." That's my life, and that's all you or anyone can make out of it.

I am a woman of simple tastes.

Where I come from - it's nothing to glorify.

I like simplicity almost to the point of being monastic.

At a very early age and continuing throughout my life, I have marveled at the beautiful story of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.

Once in royal David's city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild Jesus Christ her little Child . . . With the poor, and mean, and lowly, Lived on earth our Savior Holy.

Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don’t make ripples all around you, don’t try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.

Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

I'm just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It's not really that big of a deal.

Sometimes there is simply no need to be either clever or original.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

[Humility is:] Greatness in plain clothes

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.

God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.

I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.

Truly, whoever possesses little is that much less possessed: praised be a little poverty!