Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Being poor is only romantic in books.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I was very poor when I was young.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

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

Poverty breeds a lot of things. When people are desperate and trying to survive, they do drastic things.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

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

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

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

I was poor my whole life.

I grew up in a household where my mom made $16,000 a year. I know the struggle. I know how to keep those things in perspective, and I do keep it into perspective.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.