The Poor Quotes

Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.

Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state.

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

One of Walt Whitman's best-known poems is this one: When I heard the learn'd astronomer,.... The trouble is, Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn't know any better

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice.

The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes and things – " "Plumbers?" " – exactly, yes, but of course they're flummoxed.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.

To sink a six-foot putt with thirty million people looking over your shoulder, convince yourself that, if you miss it, you will be embarrassed and poor.

You should never value people according to the size of their bank balances. Being poor does not make them bad and being rich does not make them good

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

A Children’s Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.

I think it's all a coincidence. I've pitched some poor games here and got a no-decision. But just give me the ball. I don't care where I pitch.

Any intelligent woman would have made a dignified retreat, but this was New Jersey, where dignity always runs a poor second to the pleasure of getting in someone's face.

In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

To live with Jesus is to live with the poor. To live with the poor is to live with Jesus.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

A man who doesn't make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband.

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

Is political discourse still just shouting opinions about subjective, hot-button issues based on poor understanding and outright ignorance about which agreements can never be reached?

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.

[Donald Trump] said it's against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people, that's pushing all of them in terms of policy.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S. That says something about a country. That's how incredible what we have is. But it can also take away incentive.

Partner with churches to assist the poor.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.