The Poor Quotes

When we talk about Skill India Mission, we do not merely talk about filling the pockets of people. We want to instil a sense of self-confidence among the poor.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

Our little pebble of poor performance helps to start, or to sustain, an avalanche.

We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

Men will become poor because they will not have a love for trees... If you don't love trees, you don't love God.

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say

Traveller, let your step be light, So that sleep these eyes may close, For poor Scarron, till to-night, Ne'er was able e'en to doze.

Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

Let the poor man mind his tongue

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word.

The Democrat is the party that's gonna keep you poor!

Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.

There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.

... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger.

An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

Nobody would watch Lifestyles of the Poor and the Unknown.

It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.

No two things are equal. No two people are equal. Nobody can guarantee equal outcomes unless everybody's poor.

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

Do not complain then of your poverty, my daughter, - we only complain of that which is unwelcome, and if poverty is unwelcome to you, you are no longer poor in spirit.

Music should be poor. Music should be with out air conditioning. That's just the way it is.

In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.

A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.

That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

I have a poor memory for names; but I seldom remember a face.

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

Poor soul - very sad; her late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - poor soul.

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.