Ben Bernanke Quotes

I was from this small town, and my parents were poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

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

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.

There are many Asian-Americans who are living in poverty, especially our senior citizens.

The thing I've learned most about poverty is how expensive it is to be poor. It's super easy to pay rent every month if you earn enough to pay rent and have a decent job. It's super hard to pay rent if you need a coupon from the state and then need to go find an apartment that will accept that coupon and only that coupon.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

Poverty makes slaves of free men.