Poverty Quotes

Why should a child's future be shaped by where they are born?

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.

Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor.

Poverty is a scandal of our times because it CAN be changed.

Poverty is a great equalizer

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

Broke is normal. Why be normal?

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

We cannot end hunger unless we end poverty.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

You can't eat straight A's.

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

Like navigation markings in unknown waters, definitions of poverty need to be distinctive and unambiguous. A definition that is not precise is as bad as no definition at all.

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

One does not go to Moscow to get fat.

One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.

A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

There are so many problems to solve on this planet first before we begin to trash other worlds.

Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

Nobody has to do anything wrong to end up living a life that feels like it’s not their own, all they have to do is take a step back, and hope for the best.

My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.

I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle with poverty and getting ripped off

Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village.

Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

Poverty is a mathematical proof of the fact that mankind is a big failure!

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.