Best poverty & grows Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.”

Real Grows Poverty Growing Up Desperation

“Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.”

Humans Joy Grows Poor Poverty Rich Harvest Reap Manure

Book:A Chambermaid's Diary

Source: A Chambermaid's Diary

“Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.”

Real Sometimes Grows Poverty Doubt Sand Rainbow Hung Jewels June Dew Dividends Farmland

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.”

Ifs Grows Poverty Increase Millionaire Abolish Plutocracy

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.”

Ifs World Needs Believe Children I Can States Enough Play Helping Opportunity I Believe Grows United Poverty Roles United States Growing Up Assuming Frustration Stable Prosperous Time Of Need

Author:Bill Gates

“Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.”

Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone

“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 up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.”

Long Ends Pain Lasts Moving Used Grows Attention Poverty Sun Too Much Shrinks Unbearable Daylight Exposing Dormant Squalor

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases.”

Grows Growth Wealth Poverty Economics Overcoming Increase Absolutes Misery Subjective

Book:The Second Crisis of Economic Theory: And Other Selected Papers from the American Economic Meeting, December 27-29, 1971

Source: The Second Crisis of Economic Theory: And Other Selected Papers from the American Economic Meeting, December 27-29, 1971

“... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)

“It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices can plunge millions into poverty, which, in turn, can spark riots that cost lives, and can lead to instability. And this danger will only grow if a surging global population isn't matched by surging food production. So reducing malnutrition and hunger around the world advances international peace and security - and that includes the national security of the United States.”

“I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.”

Persons America Opportunity Grows Can Do Poverty Economic Activity Happenings Investment China Convinced Latin Mexico Latin America Best Investment

Author:Carlos Slim

“Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.”

Hard America Social Grows Poverty Security Paid Meant To Be Social Security Poverty In America

Author:Chris Christie

“Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.”

Sometimes Choices Grows Realizing Poverty Growing Up Educational Neighborhood Educational System

Author:Keke Palmer

“When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.”

Knows Children Christian Grows Leadership Church Poverty Growing Up Benefits

Author:Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

“Unhappiness doesn't grow on the chest like leprosy. Poverty won't fall off the roof like a loose tile, no; poverty and unhappiness are man's doing.”

Men Fall Grows Poverty Unhappiness Chests Roof Tiles Leprosy

Book:The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays

Source: The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays

“The episcopal church was destined, inevitably, to grow further and further away from the Christian teaching of poverty and denial of worldly goods. It became more like an additional arm of secular administration.”

Christian Grows Church Poverty Teaching Arms Administration Denial Goods Secular Worldly Destined Christian Teaching

Author:Judith Herrin

“In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.”

Wells Children Country Individual Grows Responsibility Poverty Growing Up Despair Our Children Priorities Well Being Great Country

Author:Jimmy Carter

“As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.”

People Kind Shows Dream Kids Wanted Grows My Own Poverty Growing Up Gave Up

Author:Cristela Alonzo

“It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.”

Ifs Persons Country America Grows Black Born White Poverty Growing Up Police Educational African American Incidents Cheaper Black Person Caucasian

Author:Warren Ballentine

“New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.”

Way Ends Grows Natural Poverty Technology Resources Environmental Rising Consumption Pie Natural Resources New Technology Resource Depletion

Author:Ramez Naam

“Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what's relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.”

Ifs Want Sometimes Reality Kids Choices Grows Realizing Poverty Growing Up Streets Appreciate Available Educational Neighborhood Relative Educational System

Author:Keke Palmer

“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.”

Source: The Kite Runner

“The deeper we grow in the Spirit of Jesus Christ, the poorer we become - the more we realize that everything in life is a gift. The tenor of our lives becomes one of humble and joyful thanksgiving. Awareness of our poverty and ineptitude causes us to rejoice in the gift of being called out of darkness into wondrous light and translated into the kingdom of God's beloved Son.”

Source: The ragamuffin Gospel

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