Clothes Quote by Stephanie Land

“As I grew older I learned to be ashamed of being poor, too. It became humiliating, something I'd do everything I could to hide…

— Damien Echols

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning…

— Ricky Gervais

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

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

— Dolly Parton

Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose,…

— Harry Belafonte

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

— Taylor Caldwell

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

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way…

— Jennifer Garner

When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her…

— Patrisse Cullors

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

— Chely Wright

I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs rumbling so…

— Jimmy Barnes

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