Logic Quotes

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

I grew up poor.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

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

I know what poverty is.

Poverty demoralizes.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

Like a lot of black people, I grew up straight po'. Wasn't no question about whether we was po', either. If you really wanted to know, all you had to do was look in our refrigerator.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

When I was young, poverty was so common that it didn’t have a name.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

I knew when I left school, my stomach would probably hurt from having nothing to eat, and I would be going back to those same circumstances that were breaking me.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.