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  • 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.

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

    Dream   Rags   Riches  
    Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
  • While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of "rags to riches" were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.

    Men   Class   Rags  
    Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.254, Routledge
  • The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.

    Moving   Airplane   Light  
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Apr 16, 2014
  • [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.

  • There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

    Justice   Rags   Scandal  
    'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 1, sc. 1
  • The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

    Weed   Cereal   Oats  
    Waverley Root (1996). “Food”, William S. Konecky Associates
  • My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from May 17, 2014
  • 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.

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

    Parent   Rags   Roles  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • 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.

    Dream   Reality   Rags  
  • We are the rags to riches story okay the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally okay, God's gonna take "Duck Dynasty" where he wants it to go okay and to the people that he wants it to go to.

    Humble   Ducks   People  
    "Uncle Si Compares Sacrifice of U.S. Troops to that of Jesus Christ". Interview with Jennifer Wishon, blogs.cbn.com. September 4, 2013.
  • Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

    Rags   Stories   Done  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.106, Scholastic Inc.
  • 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.

    Song   School   Piano  
    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • 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.

    Unique   Rose   Riches  
    Source: tech.blorge.com
  • The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.

    Stars   Ideas   America  
  • 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.

    Dark   Men   Humanity  
  • 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.

    "The Meaning of a Decent Society" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2013.
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