Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

Complaint is poverty.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

There is no peace in poverty

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

I loathed poverty and I would have liked to put my hands on the party who said that poverty is an honorable estate. It is an indication of inefficiency and nothing more. There is nothing honorable or fine about it.

The United States has more people living in poverty than at almost any time in the modern history of our country. I believe that in a democratic, civilized society none of our people should be hungry or living in desperation. We need to expand Social Security, not cut it. We need to increase funding for nutrition programs, not cut them.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country and millions of people are struggling to put food on the table. It is my absolute conviction that everyone in this country deserves a minimum standard of living and we've got to go forward in the fight to make that happen.

I just hated poverty.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

I know what poverty is.