Material Concerns Quotes

I am sure you will agree that all children deserve time, attention, and love from the adults in their lives. These basic qualities are so much more valuable than the always-changing material and social concerns that can seem so important to young people.

Money is a hazard.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No time. Does it need time to be religious?" "Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odéon Bar and all that.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Most children's first words are 'Mama' or 'Daddy.' Mine were, 'Do I have to use my own money?'

Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.

I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.

The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

There seems to be an unalterable contradiction between the human mind and its employments. How can a soul be a merchant? What relation to an immortal being have the price of linseed, the brokerage on hemp? Can an undying creature debit petty expenses and charge for carriage paid? The soul ties its shoes; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.

I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'?

Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.