Born Quote by Rose Pastor Stokes

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

— Fay Weldon

“Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night.”

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

“beyond blows and hunger there is something that hurts even more: poverty”

— Jacob Dinezon

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

— Kirk Douglas

“Hunger and poverty steal your childhood and take away your innocence and sense of security. But I was one of the lucky ones because…

— Saroo Brierley

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

— Lucian

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.

— Antonio Porchia

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

— Elbert Hubbard

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

— John Florio

“Poverty is no crime; always remember that. After all, why should we despair? Our present difficulties will pass away, and God will right us.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You can't change generational poverty by sitting on your ass. Let's get to work!”

— Damen Lopez

“In all my travels I saw very little real poverty, I mean the grinding terrifying poorness of the Thirties. That at least was real…

— John Steinbeck