The Poor Quotes

Like every poor person, I used to dream about winning the lottery. I didn't just get money, though. I got fame. And I got fame before I got money, and it was scary.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

Babies don't know who's rich and who's poor. You love 'em and they're happy.

If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations.

Many people come here and they think my apartment is a poor relative to my name. But you cannot be radical and have money, it’s impossible.

If a poor family falls on hard times in the woods, and no one is around to care, did it really happen?

Money nowadays is money; money brings office; money gains friends; everywhere the poor man is down. [Lat., In pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet.]

Go to the poor there you will find God.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.

I think we can rule out 'mixed brain dominance' as a cause of your poor performance at school, Charlie Brown" "Have you ruled out stupidity?" "Peanuts", Charles M

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.

The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.

As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

If you want to be a rich person... don't let the poor person inside of you do your talking.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

I'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.

There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

The real alternative to power of the rich is not power of the poor. It's just plain power.

Most people are poor not because they are not smart - most people are poor or struggle financially because they're fearful of losing.

What you think is real is your reality.

Rich people believe in themselves. They believe in their value and in their ability to deliver it. Poor people don't. That's why they need "guarantees."