Adolescence Quote by Chris Van Hollen

“Poverty suppresses growth in regions of the brain that empower children to do well in school, handle the greater threats they face on a…

— Dacher Keltner

I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing up.

— Wes Streeting

Poverty places not just one or two obstacles but multiple obstacles in a child's pathway to what we would consider to be regular development…

— Geoffrey Canada

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should…

— Jackie Shroff

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

Poverty damages the educational potential of children, whether through stress or poor diet, while overcrowded, poor-quality housing has the same impact too.

— Owen Jones

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

— Dhanush

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In…

— Sal Albanese

One of the most durable successes of the war on poverty was to dramatically reduce the number of elderly poor in America. That's still…

— Sasha Abramsky

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the…

— Honore de Balzac

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt…

— Sherman Alexie