Adults Quote by Paul Samuelson

In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat…

— Albert Camus

“There were, of course, other heroes, little ones who did little things to help people get through: merchants who let profits disappear rather than…

— Harvey H. Jackson

Now, in the sixties we were naive, like children. Everybody went back to their rooms and said 'We didn't get a wonderful world of…

— John Lennon

“If it weren't for the Chicagos and Detroits and Toledos, the terrible things would spread out across the whole country and make trouble for…

— Stephen Dobyns

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty…

— Wayne Dyer

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

— Luigi Barzini

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends,…

— Paul Harvey

We were poor and lived modestly, but we always had food on the table.

— Dwane Casey

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the…

— Herman Melville

“The old folk from Indiana and Iowa and Illinois, from Boston and Kansas City and Des Moines, they sold their homes and their stores,…

— John Fante

“era, life was a constant physical challenge. We didn’t have refrigerators, preservatives, microwaves, fast food, or pizza delivery to help us put dinner on…

— Ben Greenfield

“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a…

— Anonymous