The Poor Quotes

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.

Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.

Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

It was a different sexual situation going on than it is in the '80s and '90s, and I did a very poor job of describing that.

When the idle poor, Become the idle rich, You'll never know, Just who is who, Or who is which.

When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

And plenty makes us poor.

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.

Without peace there can be no prosperity for any people, rich or poor. And yet, there can be no peace without erasing the harshness of the growing contrast between the rich and the poor.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

Poor people have sh*tty lobbyists.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

We dont need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.

I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?