Quotes of: Poverty Keyword

Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's quarterly in the autumn of 1981. The essay opened with a kind of encouragement: 'There used to ...

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Measured in terms of the World Bank poverty standard, the number of poor people in China fell from 652 million to 135 million between 1981 and 2004 - in other words, more than half a billion people were lifted out of poverty. The number of poor peopl...

Wang Shaoguang

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Poverty: The result of marriage.

Caravan of Dreams

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

Dorothy Dix

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Viola Davis

Such a little child To send to be a priestling... Icy poverty

Japanese Haiku

Better poetry than riches, Better poverty than fortunes.

Mythopia: Poetry

Poverty is a result of poor choices not of poor luck

Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Robert Kennedy

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

Suze Orman

Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one.

John Yarmuth

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Khalil Gibran

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

Lloyd Banks

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

Liya Kebede

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

Lucinda Williams

Pursue money while you're alive, so that poverty will not pursue you when you're old.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

Mother Teresa

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Coco Chanel

After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.

Lawrence Bender

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

Viktor Yanukovych