The Poor Quotes

We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has freckles,' said Caspian. Oh, poor girl,' said Lucy.

He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.

anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

What's all this about yanking poor Magnus and Alec back from their vacation?" Isabelle demanded. "They have opera tickets!

[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings.

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people.

That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

A wise minister would rather preserve peace than gain a victory, because he knows that even the most successful war leaves nations generally more poor, always more profligate, than it found them.

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.

For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

You don't have to look poor, you don't have to look down; For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you allow it to be.

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

Throughout my whole life money has always been a problem. But I didn't realize that we were poor when we were kids!

There is an awful lot of work to do to protect trans folks. We are still disproportionally poor and administratively and institutionally discriminated against at all levels of society.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers.

Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.

If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.

I trained myself. Long ago, 'Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Then let not what I cannot have My cheer of mind destroy. Whilst thus I sing, I am a king, Although a poor blind boy!

Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.

President Obama has pledged $3 billion to aid poor nations. All of that $3 billion is going to the United States.

For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

The most important assets we have are our bodies and our energy which can be put to good use as resources in political activism for poor and working people.

Martin Luther King was not a Marxist or a communist, but his radical love leads him to put poor and working people at the center.