Quotes About The Culture Of Poverty

#1. A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in poverty. People don't know how different it is over there.

Wiz Khalifa

#2. It's hard to look in charge when you're hunched over like Quasimodo.

Rick Riordan

#3. There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#4. When I was a young woman, before I moved to New York, working in small, non-Equity theatres in the Midwest, I did a lot of musicals in my early to mid-20s.

Jayne Houdyshell

#5. The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

Max Frisch

#6. She missed
without knowing what she missed
paints and crayons

Toni Morrison

#7. The big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition.

Barack Obama

#8. Her bikini - small; heels - tall
She said she liked the ocean.

LL Cool J

#9. I will never forget how I have been treated here by the fans, the club and the owners, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to finish my career as a Manchester City player.

Yaya Toure

#10. It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

Hans Hofmann

#11. There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#12. People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.

Brian Friel

#13. The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

Charlie Munger

#14. Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling that you have no culture, because you've been torn between cultures, between incompatible symbols. How can you exist when you don't know where you are?

Muriel Barbery

#15. There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.

Ethel Waters

#16. Money is a kind of poetry.

Wallace Stevens

#17. Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

Terry Wogan

#18. I don't, when I think of a city, think of these people, people with very little who are content with that. That is, I think about poverty and culture and traffic and pollution and crime...

Jon Chopan

#19. War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It's going to take the redesign of our culture and values.

Jacque Fresco

#20. Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

John Howard Griffin

#21. I really like the reggae concepts like the culture vibe. They speak on everything that's going on, they don't have limits. They speak on politics, they speak on life, they speak on the troubles of poverty, everything. The message, the melodies and the concepts of reggae music are unbelievable.

Sean Kingston

#22. Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

Adam Davidson

#23. Millions of people with respiratory diseases have relied on oxygen equipment, delivered to their homes, to help them breathe.

Charles Duhigg

#24. Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous superstition instead of coming into the light of Christianity and assimilating into Christian culture.

Bryan Fischer

#25. A culture that holds people back should and can be changed ...

Muhammad Yunus

#26. I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#27. There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

Lawrence Wright

#28. A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

W. H. Auden

#29. Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

Joseph Campbell

#30. All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.

Leo Tolstoy

#31. I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it.

Vijay Singh

#32. Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#33. And there's an argument to be made that if intentional and thoughtful parenthood is an indicator of parental and family happiness, then having gay parents - parents who weren't able to "accidentally" have a child - may be, in fact, among the better circumstances there are for a child.

Jessica Valenti

#34. A tame horse contributes much more to life than a wild one. Energy out of control is dangerous; energy under control is powerful.

Billy Graham

#35. If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

Marco Rubio

#36. It is not a scientific proposition to determine that some cultures lack political power because they show nothing similar to what is found in our culture. It is instead the sign of a certain conceptual poverty.

Pierre Clastres

#37. The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

Al Franken

#38. Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.

Dambisa Moyo