Sargent Shriver Quotes

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

Poverty makes you work really hard.

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

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

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

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

I come from a poor family.

nothing more afflicts the mind of man than Poverty

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

I see all kinds of people work hard all over the world, and some of them are barely making it. I don't just mean subsistence farmers. I mean people in the developed world who work multiple jobs, and because the cost of health care and child care eats up almost all of the living they make.

Economics should not drive you out of the community.

My family were really poor.

My father worked three jobs, my mother worked two, seven days a week sometimes. And they wouldn't take welfare or social assistance, they were too proud.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I was poor my whole life.

I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.

I've been poor most of my life.

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

In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.