Quotes About Poverty

I have the goal of getting together 30 or 40 poor kids and bringing them to live with me.

I've been broke my whole life, you get what I'm saying? I'm scared of the bank.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

I know what feeling broke feels like real well. I know that real well.

I desire to leave this world as I entered it - barefoot and broke.

I've always loved fashion, but when you're broke, you're wearing whatever your dad gave you.

Me and Iggor come from poor upbringings. We're broke, never had any money.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.

In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

Being poor sucks... It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

When I was just 13, we went from being middle class to lower middle class and finally lower class, as someone close to my father took away everything he had, including his property. All of a sudden, I started working at the age of 13.

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.

The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their poverty was their own fault and, to demonstrate that, if you're not up to mark then you're sanctioned and the money stops.

The miseries suffered by our people come more from the shameless exploitation of our countries.