Poor Quotes
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift up the poor and the hungry.
I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.
Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.
Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.
I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America.
I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.
Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.
I generally don't regret decisions that have poor outcomes for me because that's the best way you can learn.
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.
The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!
Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.
Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.
When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor. I was asked to leave after a year. What I really wanted to do was to be an artist.
I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.
People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."
The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time
My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.
Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.
Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.
Uncle Scrooge preferred to let the poor die "and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge may not have had God on his side, but his arithmetic was impeccable.
Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.
They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.
No matter who you are, if you have a $30 operating loss, you can carry it forward to the next year. And poor people do take advantage of that, also.
As long as there's anybody that's poor or middle class, there will not be satisfaction that there are rich people. Not 'til we get rid of all the rich can we say we have finished the job.
There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted.
Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.
Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone
The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.
There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That's why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home
The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.
Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.
In this cash-rich, time-poor culture of ours, the most precious commodity we have is time...volunteering our precious time, is in this brutally self-involved world, the most truly selfless act
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.
