“I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.” KidsJobsYoungHousePoorLevelsPovertyGrewGrew UpModest Author:Chely Wright
“How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.” MeanHousePovertyGoneComfortNeighbor Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.” MenHeartPersonsHousePovertyFoolVoid Author:Chanakya
“I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.” MenWantFeelsLittlesFeelingsPastHouseLeftFeltPerfectPoorPovertyDangerShadowSafetyWingsProtectionChickensShelterAlmightyRoyalCalmnessPoor ManAnnualsPensionHensRoyal FamilyPerfect Peace Author:Christmas Evans
“I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty.I decided that I would not live for myself but would live for others.” ChildrenUsedMotherHouseBornPoorPovertyDecidedSellsCoachesTeaHouseholdLivelihoodRailwayLive For OthersPoor FamilyUtensils Author:Narendra Modi
“Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and culture-bound, not only in the past but in the present too. The people who took their lives, the paths which led them to that end, and the experience of dying in this way were deeply influenced by specific historical circumstances. Only by making a greater effort at historical understanding can this most secret house of death be made to yield up more of its confidences.” PeopleWayMayMadeEndsPastFormCultureHouseSexUnderstandingEffortSecretPovertyPathGreaterDyingCircumstancesSuicideHistoricalBoundsYieldBritish History Author:David Cannadine
“Lord God, I thank Thee that Thou hast been pleased to make me a poor and indigent man upon earth. I have neither house nor land nor money, to leave behind me. Thou hast given me wife and children, whom I now restore to Thee. Lord, nourish, teach, and preserve them as Thou hast me.” MenChildrenEarthHouseGivenPoorBehindsLordPovertyTeachWifeLandTheePreservesLord God Author:Martin Luther
“It's the anarchy of poverty delights me, the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements” HousePovertyDelightAnarchyYellowBricksTenementsWooden House Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“In my grandmother's house there was always chicken soup And talk of the old country--mud and boards, Poverty, The snow falling down and necks of lovers.” CountryFallHousePovertyLoversEatingDown AndSnowBoardsNecksGrandmotherChickensSoupMudMy GrandmotherFalling DownSnow FallingChicken Soup Book:The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001 Source: The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001
“At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which are to this day of extraordinary strength, and are covered with stucco so highly polished that they seem to be as glistening as glass. That king did not use brick from poverty; for he was choke-full of revenues, being ruler of all Caria.” UseSeemsHousePovertyWallKingsBuiltExtraordinaryGlassesThis DayCoveredRulersBricksRevenueChokeMarblePolished Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity. You could afford your house without the government-if it weren't for the government. Character matters; leadership descends from character. If you commit a crime, you're guilty. Compassion is no substitute for justice. Poverty is not the root cause of crime. The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters.” IfsMatterCharacterGovernmentHouseNationsCausesJusticeCompassionPovertyCrimeKingsRootsProsperityCommitGuiltyLos AngelesSubstitutesRiotVerdictRoot Cause Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Unemployment in the sense of distress is widely disappearing. . . . We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor-house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a change to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with he help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of the economic policies we advocate” MenYearsHelpingTodayJobsLastsAmericaPurposeHouseGivenNationsGoalPoorPovertyEconomicLandPolicyEqualSightFinalsEightDisappearEvery ManPrimariesTriumphGuaranteesDistressUnemploymentVanishingEconomic PolicyAmerica Today Author:Herbert Hoover
“It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.” IfsHouseRoomsPovertyForgottenRoyaltyTreasury Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.” MotivationalHousePoliticsWorkPovertyEconomyViolenceSocietyExampleSafeBuiltSafetyLibertarianCivil WarLiberalism Book:Lincoln on Democracy Source: Lincoln on Democracy
“There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayLifeNeedsShouldMeanTwoKidsHouseRoomsPovertyMillionsRichThousandShould HaveDollarsBillionsHungryMake SensePlanesPantsApartmentStarvingDrawersShack Author:Tupac Shakur