Bessie Head Quotes

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

I just had different circumstances than most players, and I think that has been an advantage - maybe I carry a little chip on my shoulder with just how tough it was for my parents to overcome some of those financial situations.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love

America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.

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

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

Poverty's potential for character building is far overrated.

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

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

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

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.