Dad Quote by Johnny Lever

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

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma. And we're able to…

— Matthew Desmond

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

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 grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs rumbling so…

— Jimmy Barnes

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money.…

— Faith Sullivan

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a…

— Gordon Parks

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

— Taylor Caldwell

The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at…

— Chuck Norris

Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until…

— J. K. Rowling

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

— Bertolt Brecht

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