Quotes About Rising From Poverty

#1. Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.

Bill Dedman

#2. Devout Anatolian masses rising from poverty have transformed Turkey politically and economically.

Pankaj Mishra

#3. A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

Jonah Goldberg

#4. Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.

Anita Loos

#5. Her heart was walking around the building with Kirby. And her jacket was still in his car.

Regina Duke

#6. Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

Vera Nazarian

#7. Make it personal.

Richard K. Morgan

#8. He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Mark Twain

#9. I guess John Lennon had it right: give peace a chance.

Chris O'Donnell

#10. It would be comforting if love were an energy source which continued to glow after our deaths.

Julian Barnes

#11. Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.

John C. Maxwell

#12. Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

John F. Kennedy

#13. I will fight for America till the day I drop.

Don King

#14. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx

#15. Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.

Eric Alterman

#16. 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.

Ramez Naam

#17. Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.

Rajiv Gandhi

#18. Hope, objects in mirror are closer than they appear.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#19. One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall

C.E. Murphy

#20. Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.

Leonard Ravenhill

#21. Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he's far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can't afford self-doubt and he can't let other people's opinions, even a father's, keep him from writing.

Wallace Stegner

#22. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's the wounded male ego. It's as though Hollywood thinks I've got some choice in whether I like him or not. As if. I can't change who I am.

Kirsty Eagar