Best 250 quotes in «broke quotes» category

Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.

He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist. I wiped it off and called him a prisoner. He placed the hours on a scale with hours from former days to compare. I took a hammer and broke it all. He bent down and picked up the shards of minutes first then swept the seconds. I told him he’d missed a spot; there were some sparkling specks left. 'What are they?' he asked. 'Those are moments,' I said. 'What are they made of?' he asked. They are times, I thought, when you win a race or win a heart. They are times when you give birth or lay something, someone to rest. When you wake up in the morning with a smile because anything is possible. When someone compliments the thing you hate most about yourself. Times when you are embarrassed. Times when you are hurtful. Times when you relish in a hearty meal. Times when you service others and are content with a well-spent day. 'What are they made of?' he asked again. 'They are made up of times when we are fully present.' I picked up one of the specks with the tip of my finger. 'Do you remember this?' I asked. 'Of course,' he said, 'I was whistling in the kitchen that morning.' 'Why?' I asked. 'Because of the knowledge that I was loved.

Declined. I went inside to pay cash. This had happened before, but not often. There was something about that word that sucked the self-respect out of your soul. This time it sucked out all my hope as well.

I consider myself fortunate that I no longer live in the home where I broke a mercury filled astronomical spectral lamp.

If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.

If you’re about to break, go for broke.

I kept having the same dream over and over. I guess my conscious can't afford any new ones. Broke like me..

In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man.

-ingen Penge mere og kan ikke arbejde, blaut, Far, udsuget, Fan danse mig.

I had to learn to act broke so I won’t go broke

Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…

(Regarding check-cashing places): It's hitting me how poor this really is: I'm standing in a long line to pay someone to give me my pay. So, technically, they get paid before I do, and it's my damn check.

I am a descendent of a whole bunch of Black folk who couldn't be broken.

It sucks to be broken and pretend that it's a beautiful version of yourself.

Never make promises when you are broke

Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job; some need customers.

Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than the person they left you for, and the ex finds out, after losing all and regretting. It was a blessing that it ended. Though money wasn't sufficient then, mostly they were rich with your love, now suffering being broke in both.

Some women would not cheat, and some would not have cheated, had they each married a man whom they love … or at least like.

That’s the problem of today’s generation. You want all the things quickly. You all hate to struggle. You see the life into two extremes, either success or failure, either rich or broke, either victory or defeat. You see the life in all black and white, but there are various shades of gray in-between two extremes of black and white and life happens to be there.

The definition of a person who practices visualization and positive thinking, without taking action: a broke loser.

The hatred of money is generally a subconscious attempt to alleviate the pain of being broke or poor.

The Lord is your shepherd; don’t ever say “I am lost”. He leads you to green pastures; don’t ever say “I am broke”. Let the weak shout; “ I am very very very strong”!

The loss of my child broke my spirit.

Only Broke / Small minded people believes everything is expensive.

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

Rules are rules... sometimes we should get out of them other times we get caugh for breaking the rules... but what happens when a relative is affected in your work? Like you have to choose the relative or the work... what happens then!?

There’s a very fine line between being broke and being humble.

There's nothing more challenging than walking on a ceiling broke when wearing high heels

You can have a Masters degree in making money, but you will still wind up broke if you have a PhD in spending it.

YOU CAN NEVER GO BROKE ACTING BROKE

1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".

Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.

There’s nothing you could do to me that hasn’t already been done. Life already broke my heart.

We fell in love and heard thousands of words in every silence between us. Then we fell apart and heard only silence in thousands of words we spoke to each other.

Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.

After I got out of the studio system, I was completely [broke] for the 30th time; they said I’d never work again. So I’m going to go and produce those movies that they wouldn’t let me do.

All hell broke loose.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made and I got professionally involved with a manager who said it didn't matter what you did as long as you kept working. I wound up completely broke.

Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.

All the lyrical rappers I know is broke.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.

Artemis: I am not buoyed by that. Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are supposed to be equalized. Mulch: I'm pretty sure that both of you just made really horrible jokes. But I'm not sure because I think you broke my funny bone.

As H.L. Mencken once said, 'nobody ever when broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' Our show [All in the Family] countered that witticism. I think he was wrong.

Anybody can be going from being broke to being wealthy, as I did.

At some point a few years ago Japan unilaterally stopped those talks and broke off contacts with us. It was not we who broke off contacts with Japan, it was the Japanese side that broke off contacts with us.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

Because that which was new was almost always temporary. And that which was temporary broke your heart.

Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.