Quotes of: Poverty Keyword

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?

Sarah Bernhardt

Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.

Aesop's Fables

Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

Naveen Jain

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

Patrick J. Kennedy

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Plato

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

Roberto Benigni

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Sophia Loren

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

Kailash Satyarthi

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

Michael Harrington

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.

Mehmet Murat ildan

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

Sri Aurobindo

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

Scott Cook

It is much better to live in poverty and graduate to the middle class, than it is to live as a king and be demoted to the middle class.

Mustafa Said

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Mark Takano

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from the mainstream.

Eric Liu

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

Jon Corzine

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Bill Gates

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

Amy Sedaris

This is what people don't understand: obesity is a symptom of poverty. It's not a lifestyle choice where people are just eating and not exercising. It's because kids - and this is the problem with school lunch right now - are getting sugar, fat, empt...

Tom Colicchio

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

Harri Holkeri