“As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?”

—  Bill Bryson

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I alwa…" by Bill Bryson?
Bill Bryson photo
Bill Bryson 112
American author 1951

Related quotes

Aaliyah photo

“I’ve always been mysterious. My mother and father always used to ask me, "What are you thinking, what’s going on?" There are times when I don’t understand myself, you know what I mean?”

Aaliyah (1979–2001) American singer, actress and model
Tupac Shakur photo

“My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Variant: My Mama used to tell me if u can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for.
Source: Resurrection, 1971-1996

Arshile Gorky photo

“My sweet, I do not mean to upset you in writing this, but I want to tell you that within us, as within the nature of every person's soul there is an emptiness and we constantly seek to find that and those in order to escape from being alone. This always has been so, and always the weight of loneliness is with us, and for this reason we think of this thing or that so as not to be left alone.”

Arshile Gorky (1904–1948) Armenian-American painter

Source: 1930 - 1941, from 'Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof' (2009), p. 132: in a letter to his sister Vartush Mooradian, after Mai 1938

Jane Seymour photo

“Open your heart when times get tough, accept what happens, live in the moment and reach out to help others as there’s always someone worse off than you.”

Jane Seymour (1951) English-American actress

She believed, rightly, that gives you purpose and helps you heal. So I always do my best to forgive and move forward.

On the lessons that her Dutch mother (who was interned in a Japanese internment camp during WWII) instilled in her in “Interview: Jane Seymour on finding love again at 64” https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/interview-jane-seymour-on-finding-love-again-at-64-1-3911978 in The Scotsman (2015 Oct 10)

James Patterson photo

“It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Thomas Wolfe photo

“What Christ is saying always, what he never swerves from saying, what he says a thousand times and in a thousand different ways, but always with a central unity of belief, is this: "I am my Father’s son, and you are my brothers." And the unity that binds us all together, that makes this earth a family, and all men brothers and the sons of God, is love.”

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) American writer

The Anatomy of Loneliness (1941)

Alice Walker photo

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

Robert Frost photo

“You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s. He’s more particular…. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Interview in Writers at Work (1963)
1960s

Jeanette Winterson photo

“I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: The Powerbook

Related topics