The Poor Quotes

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

My poor mother. Every time I get a job she asks, "Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?" and I say, "You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom."

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

The prime duty of help to the poor by the Church is not to bring temporal relief to their needs, but salvation to their souls.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

People charged with drug offenses, though, are typically poor people of color. They are routinely charged with felonies and sent to prison.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor.

I think this has been a class war waged by the rich against the poor, and I think that they won. And I think the poor are fighting back.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

We're not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

The free market is 'socialism' for the rich: the public pays the costs and the rich get the benefit - markets for the poor and plenty of state protection for the rich.

Poor whites didn't have rights. They made all kind of restrictions on voting. So person meant relatively well - off, free white man.

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.

Be close to the poor and to those in need, so as to touch in their flesh the wounded flesh of Jesus. Please, draw near to them!

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales.

The test is always how we treat the poor.

The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset.

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.

We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

If my head holds one thought wise and clear, it's You. Poor as I am, what I hold dear is You. No matter how I see myself, I'm nothing ... Anything I am entirely is You!

If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.

Liberals will not let you improve the schools or the educational opportunities for poor people, because they want to maintain their teachers union status quo.

If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need.

We were so poor we envied everyone we ever heard of.