Advantage Quote by Kirk Douglas Download Open image “My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.” — Kirk Douglas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advantage Born Children Kids Poor
My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty. — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is… — Moon Jae-in Copy Share Image
I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing up. — Wes Streeting Copy Share Image
Growing up, we were a poor yet tightknit family. My mother worked multiple jobs and always made sure that her kids never had to… — Nia Jax Copy Share Image
It is sad that the world has gotten more of my time than my children, but my children benefit from it through their financial… — RZA Copy Share Image
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles. — Jay IDK 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
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I was born with a silver microphone in my mouth, and that was an advantage. My father wrote books and was also a great… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
For some reason when I decide to pursue something, I never have any fear that it won't happen. I think it's just ingrained in… — Kelly Blatz Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
If [Donald] Trump throws 20 million off of health care, that's going to be - if he handles this badly - and it's very… — Van Jones Copy Share Image