Hector Hugh Munro Quotes

My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

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

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

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

I used to love fast food because I had no money, and I was a struggling actor.

Poverty became something one could see and experience firsthand, no matter where one was on the economic ladder; it became something you could viscerally experience through the lives of friends, family, neighbors, colleagues. I'd venture to say it's a rare person in 2013 America who knows nobody who lost a job in the recession, or knows nobody whose home went underwater or who went into foreclosure.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

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

My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend all of their money on cartons of cigarettes and stuff like that and I didn't understand how if we were broke and we couldn't afford Christmas presents, why could you smoke all of those cigarettes? It's not like they are making you better...they are killing you. It seemed real idiotic to me.

Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.

Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.

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

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

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

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.

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

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