Family Quote by Albert Camus

Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is…

— Moon Jae-in

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

— Benjamin Carson

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do…

— Narendra Modi

When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her…

— Patrisse Cullors

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after…

— Sue Sanders

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

— Jimmy Dean

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more…

— Keith Ferrazzi

Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose,…

— Harry Belafonte

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…

— Bernard Hill

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just…

— Benjamin Carson

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there…

— Andrew Carnegie

Being a single mom, I fought my way through living in poverty, feeling like I wasn't ever enough, feeling an annoying tug that we…

— Stephanie Land