Quotes About Poverty

Who says that money don't matter?If you are Rich all the world will know about you, if you are poor no one give a crap about what it's happening to you!"Life It's Short, enjoy this moment.

Money is the poor people's credit card.

He says he's not broke but he is trying to sell his kidney and corneas.

There's another advantage in being poor. The doctor will cure you faster.

We were awfully poor. But we had a lot of things that money can't buy . . . like unpaid bills.

"Mommy we're not going to be poor again are we?" "Not as long as you have that rare blood type."

If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.

I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'

Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

The challenges I have faced - among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother - are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions

Poverty is the mother of crime.

My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.