80s Quote by Kiki Smith

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding…

— Hugh Hefner

On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.

— Pete Burns

“It was a cruel world though. More than half of all children died before they could reach maturity, thanks to chronic epidemics and malnutrition.…

— Haruki Murakami

Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the…

— Henry Ford

Between the sun and poverty there was us for a little while.

— Ana Castillo

The wiping out of millions of homes took away Black and Brown wealth. It drove poverty, it drove unemployment, it drove people to food…

— Jesse Jackson

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

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but…

— Bill Gates

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more…

— Keith Ferrazzi

Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.

— Nadia Murad

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way…

— Little Richard

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

— John Leguizamo