Poor Family Quotes
32 Poor Family quotes by 32 unique authors
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I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with…
— Hugo Chavez
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When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek…
— Helen Prejean
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I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad…
— Anupam Kher
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My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive…
— Wyclef Jean
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Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced…
— Dave Winfield
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Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.
— Mark Sanford
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The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.
— George Gilder
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If a poor family falls on hard times in the woods, and no one is around to care, did it really happen?
— Stephen Colbert
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In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not…
— Winnie Byanyima
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I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
— Viktor Yanukovych
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I come from a poor family.
— Manny Pacquiao
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I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't…
— Alan Dershowitz
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When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior…
— Eric Dickerson
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
— Natalia Vodianova
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My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish…
— William Levy
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My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a…
— Kirk Douglas
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My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always…
— Herbie Hancock
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If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies,…
— Adriana Lima
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For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from…
— Zinedine Zidane
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My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian…
— Philip Zimbardo
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You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your…
— Koushun Takami
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I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was…
— Roberto Benigni
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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But…
— Idi Amin
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
— Maiwenn
Who Wrote These Poor Family Quotes
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