Don Herold Quotes

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

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

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

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

When you grow up in abject poverty, you see people exactly the way they are.

Poverty makes you work really hard.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

I grew up poor.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

You know you poor when you eatin' breakfast food late. You fryin' toast? At nine o'clock at night? With bacon? You're broke.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Poverty demoralizes.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

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