Gennady Golovkin Quotes

Growing up in the ghetto is pretty hard. It's poverty; it's frustration.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of people walking by, people who had come down from the North just to get warm. They would come to our house as beggars even though they might have a college education. People didn't have money. They bartered; they'd trade eggs or pigs. It was just completely different.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.

I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

We're living in hard times.

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

The great fear of every patriot at this moment relates to our currency. The vast over issues of paper money have raised prices to such a pitch as to make the expenses of the Government enormous.... The poor suffer from this enormous inflation of currency. Beef is 1.25 per lb—Butter $4—Eggs 3—clothing is unobtainable ... coffee is $8—sugar 3, etc. so on. Shoes cannot be had under $50 to $60 the pr. for very common ones. God only knows where all this will stop.

For ten years from the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia was wracked by poverty and social decay: the country suffered a demographic collapse on a scale never before witnessed in an industrial country outside of wartime as deaths outstripped births and the country’s population shrank by some 800,000 people each year.

Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.

People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live in poverty, they have a certain sense of hope they can get out of it. If there are no jobs, there's no hope. And bad things come from that.

America has become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.

Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

We have been getting out of the situation where we found ourselves in the early '90s, when the Soviet Union disappeared and the Russian Federation became what it is - you know, with no borders, with no budget, no money, and with huge problems starting with lack of food and so on and so forth.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.