Living in Poverty Quotes

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

I offer you what I have my Poverty

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.

Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

I was very poor when I was young.

I don't come from a wealthy family, so for me to have to struggle as long as I have in New York and Los Angeles and finally know that I have an income coming in for the next 10 episodes was a major, major life-altering moment.

You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.

I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

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

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.