I went from just a regular nappy-headed kid in poverty to Amar'e Stoudemire, New York Knicks captain superstar. But there's a lot… — Amar'e Stoudemire Copy Share Image
“You can really never give birth to anything in this world without solitude. Everything precious comes out of solitude.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Such is the scale and depth of poverty in many parts of the world that it won't be ended overnight. That is… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat… — Jenny Eclair Copy Share Image
“History testifies to the truth that it is misery that teaches men more than happiness, that it is poverty that strengthens them… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
We believe that a civilised society can be measured by the way in which it treats its most vulnerable members and that… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing… — Lane Evans Copy Share Image
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“The truth was that nature had endowed them with a larger share of brains than was common in their circle, and had… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
“Do not avoid doing what you love because you fear that it will only result in poverty or lack. If you fear… — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
For many food poverty is the product of a toxic combination of low wages, austerity economics, spiralling food prices and lengthy delays… — Luciana Berger Copy Share Image
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard… — David Platt Copy Share Image
I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door -… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Life is a race. You are racing against time. Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
If with so little we have done so much in Brazil, imagine what could have been done on a global scale, if… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich,… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
I did my residency on the South Side of Chicago.We were taking care of people who were incredibly sick and were really… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're… — Garret Keizer Copy Share Image
The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I came to think of poverty of speech as a reflection of the richness of the mind, giving it time to explore… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty,… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
Poverty is a trap: it should be eradicated. It's no real answer just lifting a few children from families stuck on low… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
