28 Movie Quotes about Poverty (Sound Clips) - page 3

Last updated on: August 24, 2025

Memorable quotes about poverty, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 I am from Moldavia. My country is very poor, you see. So in order to make money, we have decided to encourage tourism. We need this banana in order to open a fruit stand.

Quote from Garfield's Feline Fantasies

22 Once we were just shepherds, and so poor, we felt lucky to eat. And so peaceful, we kissed the hand that whipped us.

Quote from Duel of the Titans (1961)

23 All our lives we have seen our women suffer: poverty, hunger, thirst, sickness, misery. -We have seen nothing else. -We have borne this a long time.

Betty Garde as Madame Defarge in A Tale of Two Cities (1938)

24 That's an insult. I got a vow of poverty.

Quote from The Exorcist

25 Let me tell you something. There is no nobility in poverty.

Quote from The Wolf of Wall Street

26 I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again. Before the war and poverty had done things to you.

Quote from Gone with the Wind (1939)

27 That man is a product of a poor environment.

Quote from Trading places (1983)

28 For far too long, the wrong roads have been taken. The wrong roads have led us into war, into poverty, into unemployment and inflation.

Quote from Taxi Driver (1976)