Back Quote by Bunker Roy

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

— Chen Guangbiao

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

Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant…

— Anand Giridharadas

My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop…

— Brian Cox

My mother got down sick in 53 and she lived with me, an invalid, until she passed away in 1961. And during the time…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds…

— Naveen Jain

Certain stories, like my mom leaving when I was 15-years-old to go back to China because she didn't quite assimilate like we did, that…

— Jimmy O. Yang

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

— Louise Bourgeois

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I…

— Muhammad Yunus

I was born at the end of the 1993. The regime stopped giving food to the people. Three million people died from 1995 to…

— Park Yeon-mi

Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as…

— Swami Vivekananda

My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he…

— Marco Rubio