Impoverished Children Quotes

#1. Why did some of the impoverished children in Indonesia create a happy playtime with only some sticks and string, while others sat bored and sullen?

Shawn Achor

#2. How can such impoverished children laugh? How can prisoners sing with joy? They rise above by accepting that certain events are beyond their control and beyond their understanding too, and then focusing instead on what they can understand and control.

Nick Vujicic

#3. Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.

John Green

#4. Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

Sherrod Brown

#5. We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.

Diane Watson

#6. I am sure that there is many a young man who would think it a great honor to exchange his name for yours.

Erik Christian Haugaard

#7. There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.

Emile Durkheim

#8. That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility.

Deborah A. Beasley

#9. School feeding is a great tool to encourage education and provide food aid to children born into extremely impoverished situations. The kids in school being fed by WFP are empowered by their school meal to learn and better their lives!

Lauren Bush

#10. If our children grow up with no understanding of right and wrong ... no desire to live with integrity ... no faith in God ... their souls will be impoverished and they will miss life's highest good.

Billy Graham

#11. In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

Alice Walker

#12. Yes, when you are sharpened with the true information, you will be motivated to make impacts.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

Gwen Ifill

#14. In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized.

Suzanne Collins

#15. It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

Marian Wright Edelman

#16. It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries,

Ashley Judd

#17. To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to feel at all
it's merely to remember today what we felt yesterday, since today we are the living cadaver of yesterday's lost life.

Fernando Pessoa