“But perhaps no distance is greater than that which separates a poor family in the same country” — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
God rest the souls of that poor family... and pussy's half price for the next 15 minutes. — Al Swearengen Copy Share Image
I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education. — Vincent Tan Copy Share Image
I was born into a poor family but my family's good. I'm good and I'm going to do something great. — Frances Tiafoe Copy Share Image
I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school. — Maiwenn Copy Share Image
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier. — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
If a poor family falls on hard times in the woods, and no one is around to care, did it really happen? — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
We were a poor family, but the one thing we never had an issue about was food. My father's goal in life… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to… — Idi Amin Copy Share Image
In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to… — Mary Kom Copy Share Image
You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Well, I come from a poor family. My father is a farmer. When I started playing, I wasn't privileged enough to afford… — P. R. Sreejesh Copy Share Image
I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But… — Henry Thomas Copy Share Image
I was 10th of 11 kids in an alcoholic, abusive, poor family. We all want things that we can't have. And I… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
I've been dealing with pressure all life long. Coming from a very poor family in Haiti, moving to Paris, a new place,… — Jimmy Jean-Louis Copy Share Image
Government welfare programs contribute to the disintegration of poor families. They make women and children dependent on government; dependent for food, for… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
As I wrote about my childhood, I realized that there was no big tragedy. Being multiethnic is not a tragedy. I didn't… — Amy Hill Copy Share Image
My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Don't even try to make this into something weird, Lori. We grew up in the same place, so get over your complex.… — Victoria Dahl Copy Share Image
I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not… — Noemie Lenoir Copy Share Image
“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I like nature and I enjoy walking through the forest admiring its beauty and breathing not just the fresh air but, also… — Nico J. Genes Copy Share Image
“You’ll never raise that one,” they told her. “Her color ain’t good. If the good Lord takes her, it will be for… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Cizek came to Vienna [from Leitmeritz, a small town in Bohemia, then Austrian] when he was twenty [in 1885], and entered the… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho' the Goodness of… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Work by Martha Farah of the University of Pennsylvania, Tom Boyce of UCSF, and others demonstrates something outrageous: By age five, the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty. — Viktor Yanukovych Copy Share Image
I came from a very poor family. And I was able to rise up and actually win an Academy Award. And if… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs… — Mark Sanford Copy Share Image
We came from a poor, poor family and for them to see me winning a trophy in front of 90,000 people and… — Emiliano Martinez Copy Share Image
I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by… — Luis Negron Copy Share Image