The Poor Quotes

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

I think drugs affect poor people and people of color more than anyone.

But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.

Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

Do we realize that industry, which has been our good servant, might make a poor master?

Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

Haste is a poor counselor

Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

I once dressed up, very badly timed as Steve Irwin's daughter. And I didn't realize he had passed because I hadn't been following the news. I love Bindi Irwin, just the timing was in poor taste.

I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her." "Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

Only the poor can create art.

Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.

I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

Think rich, look poor.

we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.

Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone.

Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.

New York is a city where it's particularly hard to be poor, not only because everything costs twice as much as it does elsewhere but because over-the-top affluence is part of its identity.

You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.

Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.