Andre Aciman Quotes

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

I come from a poor family.

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.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I know what it is to have nothing.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I've been poor most of my life.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

I grew up poor.

I know what poverty is.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

nothing more afflicts the mind of man than Poverty

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

My family were really poor.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.