Day Quote by Ritchie Torres

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day;…

— Nwankwo Kanu

I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage, which in…

— Ritchie Torres

I've got friends whose parents work three jobs. They don't know where their next meal is going to come from. When you've got a…

— Fred VanVleet

In today's economy, it's more common to need two incomes to raise a family.

— John Fisher

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

We were definitely not rich, but we were not poor. My mum always came home from work and did everything so that we ate…

— Riyad Mahrez

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 much poorer than many families.

— David Baddiel

We weren't destitute to the point that we worried about our next meal, but our next meal after that was in question. So we…

— Ken Wahl

We used to eat economically. One of the things that happened is that we lost the cultural skills that used to allow people to…

— Michael Pollan

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

I was born in 1928, so in 1943, 1944, we had the war in Rome. There were a lot of hardships, a lack of…

— Ennio Morricone