Quotes about Poverty

Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.