Deprivation Quotes

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

The imperialists have also imposed on us an unjust economic order, and thereby divided our people into two groups: oppressors and oppressed. Hundreds of millions of Muslims are hungry and deprived of all form of health care and education.

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty.

I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'

When I was young, we had nothing. The carpets and upholstery in the palace were full of holes. The floors creaked. Everything was so old. Yes, we had a piano, an upright given to us by the Fine Arts Department. But it was out of tune.

Unless we work to strengthening the family, … all the rest : schools, and playgrounds, and public assistance, and private concern, will never be enough to cut completely the circle of despair and deprivation.

Unfortunately, I have witnessed millions of children suffering from the deprivation of basic rights such as the rights to education, the rights to health and the rights to play.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

Woman of my dreams, I don’t sleep so I can’t find her

It is a melancholy but an undoubted fact, that, even in the most thriving countries, part of the population annually dies of mere want.

But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.

On our toughest estates, generations pass with the same experience of worklessness and educational failure.

I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

You can't miss what you never had.

When a poor man has bread, he has no salt, and when he has salt, he has no bread. If he has some seasoning he has no meat. If he has some meat, he has no seasoning.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.