Born Quote by Narendra Modi

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to…

— Narendra Modi

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

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for…

— Anonymous

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 myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from…

— Thein Sein

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've lived in poverty.

— London Breed

I have seen poverty first hand. My parents were not well-off. They were in Ban'gladesh and I - just a child then - was…

— Roopa Ganguly

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

I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.

— Pope Pius X

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 grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that…

— Angus Deaton