Child Poverty Action

Famous quotes containing the words child, poverty and/or action:

    “Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn
    Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
    He wept that he was ever born,
    And he had reasons.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights. The shadows of poverty and meanness gather around us, “and lo! creation widens to our view.””
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)