Poverty Quotes
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My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
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The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.
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Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.
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what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.
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I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even those approaches focused on jobs often equip poor people with skills for which there is little market demand.
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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
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Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.
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Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
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Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.
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People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.
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To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.
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The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.
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I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.
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Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
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There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty
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Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.
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In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.
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You need dictatorships and poverty to produce great footballers.
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A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.
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Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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I like to see the world from different levels. Even when I'm making a candle or designing a piece, I like to sit on the floor to polish or make it from scratch. I haven't seen really tough times, but my husband has come up the hard way. He has even seen poverty.
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Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't virtues. The good news is that, since almost no one will be selling art, artists - especially emerging ones - won't have to think about turning out a consistent style or creating a brand. They'll be able to experiment as much as they want.
