Dad Quote by Martin Luther King III

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 mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way…

— Jennifer Garner

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

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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 have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

— Taylor Caldwell

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 was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

— Jimmy Dean

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

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

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

— Aleksandr Kuprin

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