I Was Born Poor Quotes

#1. The interesting thing about me is that I was born poor, and I've lived rich and I've lived poor, and I know how to do both. People think rich is better. I don't know.

Polly Bergen

#2. I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Albert Camus

#3. My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

Kirk Douglas

#4. I was born poor, I have lived poor, I wish to die poor.

Pope Pius X

#5. I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

Giuliana Rancic

#6. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.

Ken Follett

#7. Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. She

Ken Follett

#8. Art is the closest you can get to immortality, though it's a poor substitute - you're working for people not yet born - and people want it because it is brilliant. It ends up in museums anyway; the rich have to give it back to the people, it's their only option. There are no pockets in a shroud.

Damien Hirst

#9. Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor
so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.

Allan Wolf

#10. It was a poor thing she felt for anyone to be born a foreigner.

Oscar Wilde

#11. I was born a poor black child.

Al Gore

#12. In England, more than in any comparable country, those who are born poor are more likely to stay poor, and those who inherit privilege are more likely to pass on privilege. For those of us who believe in social justice, this stratification and segregation are morally indefensible.

Michael Gove

#13. Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

Cynthia Heimel

#14. My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

Roz Chast

#15. A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.

Pete Carril

#16. With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel

Sara Groves

#17. Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.

Dave Winfield

#18. I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

Bryce Courtenay

#19. My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

Cory Booker

#20. We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.

Vishwas Chavan

#21. Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities
that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

Alfred Austin

#22. I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were very, very poor, but we always managed to have enough to keep our bellies full.

George Jones

#23. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

Queen Victoria

#25. I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

Mel Brooks

#26. There is no more prideful creature than a man born poor.

Lynn Cullen

#27. I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father ... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

Ada Yonath

#28. I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

Sidney Altman

#29. The world is the world, and we're cast in whatever roles we fall into. It's not my fault I was born wealthy any more than you were born poor.

J. Nelle Patrick

#30. Born poor doesn't mean you've got to stay poor. Money's queer. It goes where it's wanted.

Agatha Christie

#31. Carl Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon, in 1901, grew up in a farming family, and eventually held a number of blue-collar jobs. He knew what it was to be poor and to work hard for a living.

Michael Dirda

#32. If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

Bill Gates

#33. I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

Anupam Kher

#34. There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

Jupiter Hammon

#35. I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

Idi Amin

#36. She was born poor and powerless in a land where power is money and money is adored.
Born black in a land where might is white and white is adored.
Born female in a land where decisions are masculine and masculinity controls.

Maya Angelou

#37. Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

Pope John XXIII

#38. It certainly wasn't the chronicle of a king. The yere of our Lord 1537 was a prince born to king Harry th'eight. It was, instead, the story of a poor boy who learns to read and comes to know as much of politics as a prince. This

Jill Lepore

#39. They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.

Joseph O'Connor

#40. My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

Dorothy Allison

#41. The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.

Daniel O'Connell

#42. Poor little girl. Poor little girl, Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born.

Philippa Gregory

#43. I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

Natalia Vodianova

#44. To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

Bill Gates

#45. Some are born rich
While others poor;
Some are born free
While others captives;
Some are born blessed
While others deprived;
Some are born strong
While others weak;
And some are born great
While others slaves.
It is only in this life
blessings are unequal.

Emmanuel Aghado

#46. When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.

Walt Disney

#47. If u are born poor then it's not your mistake but if u die poor then it is your mistake

Bill Gates

#48. I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#49. I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

Iman

#50. Most Elizabethan men will shake their heads in disbelief if you suggest the idea of the equality of the sexes. No two men are born equal - some are born rich, some poor; the elder of two brothers will succeed to his father's estates, not the younger - so why should men and women be treated equally?

Ian Mortimer

#51. I was born to poor because of honest parents.

Ambrose Bierce

#52. Zebra babies can flat-out run within an hour of being born, because if they can't, they're dead. We were like zebras, so poor we didn't know how poor we were, and tough and independent because there wasn't any other way to be.

Willie Parker

#53. I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

Patti Smith

#54. Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

Candace Wheeler

#55. Although kids are born with great courage to take control of their own lives and make decisions, they have little experience on which to base their decisions, so they often make poor choices. But they can learn from those mistakes, provided parents don't get too involved.

Foster W. Cline

#56. We were born beggars, we will live like beggars and we will die like beggars.

M.F. Moonzajer

#57. If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.

George Kaiser

#58. Who born so poor,
Of intellect so mean, as not to know
What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do?
As not to know what God and conscience bade,
And what they bade not able to obey?

Robert Pollok

#59. Naked we're born, naked we'll go,
See how the vain are soon brought low.
God speed the poor boy on his way,
Fear not, we'll meet some other day.

Matthew Skelton

#60. If we fix our economic system and invest in the human capital of the poor, then we should welcome every new person born as a source of betterment for our world and all of us on it.

Ramez Naam

#61. Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good
death is better than a poor one.

Michael Moorcock

#62. Some men are born for matrimony, some achieve matrimony
but most of them are merely poor dodgers.

Helen Rowland

#63. Poor is what people become, not what they are born to be.

Saji Ijiyemi

#64. Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#65. My mom was born poor, raised poor, and was going to die poor.

Kenny Troutt

#66. Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they go. These poor souls were born sick and tired.

Louis Sullivan

#67. And she[Aphrodite]mourned Nerites' loss not because Nerites was her paramour but because she was her mentor.It was, strangely enough,poor Nerites who had taught her all she had known about sex & love until then. For how was a young Goddess, who was born from a cockle, to know about such things?

Nicholas Chong

#68. Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.

John Clare

#69. Too often, wealthy people born on third base blithely criticize the poor for failing to hit home runs. The advantaged sometimes perceive empathy as a sign of muddle-headed weakness rather than as a marker of civilization.

Nicholas Kristof

#70. She could hardly tell him it was because the child had been born a girl, destined from birth to be bound and gagged, to never be free. And she seemed to have sensed it far sooner than most. Sadly, the poor fool seemed to believe that she could actually do something about it.

Sonali Dev

#71. Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Ann Richards

#72. I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Anatole France

#73. I was born Katie O'Reilly," she began. "Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels." Titanic Rhapsody

Jina Bacarr

#74. I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.

Cher

#75. If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

Bill Gates

#76. I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

Ada Yonath

#77. In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that - it is not true, because of the level of extreme inequality.

Winnie Byanyima

#78. I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas photos, was a poor sport, and hated a lot of things. I eventually grew out of my negativity when I matured.

Colton Haynes

#79. Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.

Marco Rubio

#80. I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was raised in the countryside, planting corn and selling sweets made by my grandmother. My children, my two daughters are with me and I want a better world for my grandchildren, for your grandchildren.

Hugo Chavez

#81. I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order,
Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.

Louis MacNeice

#82. if u born poor it is not your mistake,if you die it is your mistake.

Kalam

#83. To be born poor in America today is to have a much smaller chance statistically of entering the middle class than was true a generation ago.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#84. We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

Sigmar Polke

#85. In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

J. C. Watts

#86. I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.

Natasha Trethewey