Anna Todd Quotes

I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

As I have traveled the state, I have seen firsthand that there are Arizonans who are hurting.

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my stepdad couldn't get a job. So I think a lot about families like mine who were middle class and struggled. So that experience really drives my philosophy.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind of jobs to support my young son. There's what frames my view on the topics I discuss on my shows, and the average person relates to that. No matter how many degrees I have now, I lived that life, and that comes through to the people watching.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

I'd like to live in an area of social deprivation because I think it's important to get a feel of what it's like.

Poverty is an open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon all branches of human activity.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

There is despair, Mr President, in the faces of those you do not see; in the places that you do not visit.

I did not throw out my education lightly, but what I was being taught was of no use in explaining what I saw around me. It was the Great Depression.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

I understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

It has been tough when I have been with the national team and we have gone to play in some of the poorer areas in Brazil. You see people come and watch us train or play a match, and then you know some of them are going home with no food on the plate.

Poverty is everywhere, but in Africa, there is more.

I was not so lucky to grow up with toys as I grew up in a remote area of Kenya.

I've been around low-income people all of my life. I mean, growing up, low income, the community where I've chosen to live, low-income.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.