Emmanuel Adebayor Quotes

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

I knew when I left school, my stomach would probably hurt from having nothing to eat, and I would be going back to those same circumstances that were breaking me.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

I know what poverty is.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

Life is really hard for some people.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

Poverty is often off the beaten track. It always has been.

A scene of misery and gloomy despair of a community of people who have been plunged abruptly from prosperity to a complete want of the most essential things of life.

I come from nothing.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

I don't just live in a bubble in Los Angeles. I'm on the road all the time. I say hello to people everywhere. That way, you get to see what despair is around the holidays. People are making terrible choices: Do I have heat in the winter or food on the table? Decisions between filling the gas tank or buying a gift for a kid.

I came from nothing.

The one thing that made me somewhat of an animal is I didn't have anything growing up.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.