Olu Falae Quotes

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.

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of the times. They will give an impulse to smuggling unknown to the country heretofore.

In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

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.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Russia is in the advanced stages of poverty.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

Complaint is poverty.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

Economy, the poor man's mint.

I just hated poverty.

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.