Abject Quote by Kirk Douglas Download Open image “I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.” — Kirk Douglas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abject Go Nowhere Nowhere to go Nowhere to go but up Poverty Up
My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty. — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
I came from poverty and a tough household where we didn't have enough money to really eat, to where I am now. I know… — LaMarcus Aldridge Copy Share Image
When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are. — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty. — S. Truett Cathy Copy Share Image
My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty. — Walter Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
If I can get enough signatures, to present an apology to slavery, I will present it to the President. The House of Representatives has… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
You know, you have to have some inner philosophy to deal with adversity. — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted. — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone. — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
“"The only abject failure my mind can think of is ones failure to spend Eternity in God's Heaven" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
The U.S. has a law on the books called the debt limit, but the name is misleading. The debt limit started in 1917 for… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Good diet and exercise are key, but abject fear has its own rewards. And arriving on the first day for rehearsals for 'Spamalot' and… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can… — Rex Tillerson Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on the waxen… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
