Paul Harvey Quotes

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

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

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

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.

What can he do who lacks the necessary work, if he comes to be unemployed? He has nothing but to let himself die of hunger. Then a few phrases of pity will thrown on his cadaver.

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

It has been tough when I have been with the national team and we have gone to play in some of the poorer areas in Brazil. You see people come and watch us train or play a match, and then you know some of them are going home with no food on the plate.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

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

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.