Calcutta Quote by Roopa Ganguly

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 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

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

poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end…

— Gabrielle Roy

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds…

— Naveen Jain

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is…

— Mohnish Pabrai

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

First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.

— Teresa of Avila

There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.

— Nancy Mitford

I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs - which should…

— Joe Klein

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

— Rohinton Mistry