Quotes About Poverty

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

As long as there is poverty in this world, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars.

If you want to help a hungry poor man sleeping on the bench, don't ever wake him up; put some food on the bench, put some money and leave the place without looking at your back!

A son of a poor man is standing in front of you today. This is the strength of a democracy.

Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

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.

My mom knows what it's like to keep a dirt floor clean.

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

Money Is The Root Of All Evil I Thought....But When Im Broke Is Usually When I Have The Evilest Thoughts