Carlo Collodi Quotes

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

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

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

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

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

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.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

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

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.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

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

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

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.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

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

I know what poverty is.

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

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.

I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.