Quotes About Poverty

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

Poor people are those who does not have Dreams rather does not Money...

Poor people are those who do not have Dreams rather do not have Money…

When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.