The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.

You cant leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

The U.S. government has in recent years fought what it termed wars against AIDs, drug abuse, poverty, illiteracy and terrorism. Each of those wars has budgets, legislation, offices, officials, letterhead - everything necessary in a bureaucracy to tell you something is real.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

I made a decision that whether or not I was going to make under the national poverty level wasn't going to play a part in whether or not I was an actor. That's what I do.

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

I mean that the time where we need International agreement more than ever on the environment and the rest, poverty we are breaking up our International Institutions and the rule of law and Tony Blair is part of it.

Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.