Alas Quote by Nathaniel Parker Willis

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support…

— John Hume

By creating a generation of vulnerable people, especially children, with a poor, irregular diet, we are storing up a public health time bomb.

— Luciana Berger

Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in…

— Robin Morgan

“Two out of ten U.S. children of all backgrounds live in poverty, and one-third of black and close to one-third of Latino children are…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Free quality health facilities have been made available to the children of the poor families through Daanish School System.

— Shehbaz Sharif

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we…

— Magdi Yacoub

One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.

— Richard Thaler

Labour politicians ask 'Why do so few children from poor backgrounds go to university?' Well, I'll tell them. It's because they don't go to…

— Damian Green

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.”

— Betty Hart

“If any lesson may be learned from the academic breakthroughs achieved by Pineapple and Jeremy, it is not that we should celebrate exceptionality of…

— Jonathan Kozol

I wish that positions of power dependent on education were as open to abused children, poor children, working-class children as they are to the…

— Naomi Alderman