Quotes About Riches To Rags

#1. Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me.

T. William Watts

#2. Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

Casey Stengel

#3. Its humble beginnings are that of a parasite, growing in something that is alive, draining its host of beauty. It's clever - the plight of the splinter. A sort of rags to riches story.

Tarryn Fisher

#4. This story began with a single, starving family, hunted and alone on the plains of Mongolia - and ends with Kublai Khan ruling an empire larger than that of Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Over just three generations, that is simply the greatest rags-to-riches tale in human history.

Conn Iggulden

#5. Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.

Robert Fulton

#7. Whoever has the mind stuffed with theories and more theories, suffers horribly because he is unable to realize nothing of what they have read..

Samael Aun Weor

#8. People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.

Anthony Liccione

#9. The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

Theodor Adorno

#10. We tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds.

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. Memories are so two-faced.
One minute they're hugging you like a long-lost friend, the next minute they're ripping you apart like your worst enemy.

Lesley Kagen

#12. Who's poorer, the one who begs for money or those who have not enough to give away? Or are they reflecting one another and the same nature?

Robin Sacredfire

#13. From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Criss Jami

#14. I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.

Gordon Lightfoot

#15. How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#16. Adam had once told Gansey, Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

Diana Ross

#18. This is truly a rags to riches story which doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ethic and passion lead the way.

George M. Gilbert

#19. You should never hold yourself accountable for results you don't control, but always for the strength of trying.

Michael Bennett

#20. I was the epitome of rags to riches.

Jason Mitchell

#21. Colonies are necessary to Germany. We shall get them through negotiation if possible; but if not, we shall take them.

Hjalmar Schacht

#22. Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

Brian Tracy

#23. Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.

Karen Abbott

#24. You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

Brian Tracy

#25. The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Charles A. Reich

#26. You were a well-respected agent, Michael, a rags-to-riches fairytale ending. Until you became disgraced. Now it appears your own organization wishes to be rid of you. Why is this?"
"My gun turned back into a pumpkin.

Nenia Campbell

#27. Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#28. The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Robert Reich

#29. Emperor, king, general, duke," he whispered to himself. "These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you'll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.

Ken Liu

#30. I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.

Kangana Ranaut

#31. The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

Waverley Root

#32. In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens
the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

Richard Lederer

#33. My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#34. He was
a hip cat
a hep cat
a cool cat

a bad
mad
rad cat

Oobie-do John the Sax Man Scat Man

the long
sleek
cat man!!

Jonathan London

#35. [Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Deborah Kerr

#36. James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

Jon Landau

#37. The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.

Marin Ireland