“I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing,” the old man said. “They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.”
“The great Sisler’s father was never poor and he, the father, was playing in the big leagues when he was my age.”
“When I was your age I was before the mast on a square rigged ship that ran to Africa and I have seen young lions on the beach.”
– Santiago, talking to the boy, Manolin, on page 22
“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you, through his poverty might be rich.”
– 2nd Corinthians 8:9
“Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses…”
– Hebrews 4:14
“… he was as poor as we are and would understand.” – Hemingway