Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I was poor my whole life.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

I come from a poor family.

I was very poor when I was young.

My family were really poor.

Poverty makes you work really hard.

I've lived in poverty.

I've been poor most of my life.

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.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I grew up poor.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education.

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I didn't have a dollar to my name in 2006.

I grew up in a family struggling for work.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

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.