Amuse Quote by Jonathan Ames

I read myself out of poverty, long before I worked myself out of poverty.

— Walter Inglis Anderson

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a…

— Justin Bieber

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to…

— Jon Krakauer

You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't…

— Tom Waits

I realize that I'm in the top one percent of the world. I've traveled a lot. I've seen immense poverty in the world, and…

— Andie MacDowell

I've lived in poverty.

— London Breed

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a…

— Chad Harbach

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

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after…

— Sue Sanders

Even growing up the way I did, I was shocked by the level of poverty I saw as a college student. I thought the…

— Matthew Desmond

I began to realize that poverty was really more of a choice than anything else and that I could change that. And it just…

— Benjamin Carson