Door Quote by Jack Monroe

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

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

— Aleksandr Kuprin

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

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

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

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

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

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

— Pam Grier

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 was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning…

— Ricky Gervais

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

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

— Antiphanes