The Poor Quotes

My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.

The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.

Be rich for yourself and poor to your friends.

Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.

Good for you, Ethan." That's what my poor mama would've said. Ma'am.

It's harder to be a poor person than anything else.

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich.

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget: The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

I think we can make a difference in the lives of the poor, and the millions.

You know, I think the main purpose of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps is to get poor Americans into clean, pressed, unpatched clothes, so rich Americans can stand to look at them.

I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. They must have loved it so.

I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

She tried to pray, but she had only ever prayed at night, and it seemed to her that the moons made poor protectors when angels chose to hunt by day.

I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

On Twitter, Donald Trump has called me a "poor journalist, stupid, a very dumb guy, the dumbest political commentator on television, and the dumbest man on TV."

My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong.

True, the free market ignores the poor precisely as it does not recognize the wealthy - it is 'no respecter of persons'

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's ahrdly enough of me left to make one respectable person!

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

A tight-money policy reinforces inequality in two ways. Its high interest rates disproportionately reward the rich, and the resulting unemployment disproportionately punishes the poor.

You must be poor. why? cuz ur not making any cents!

The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.

Ignoring a problem does not make it go away. In fact, it can simmer away beneath the surface and lead to poor mood and energy levels, and can also cause your moods to become unstable.

Stale water is a poor drink. Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

So here is the Great Society. It's the time - and it's going to be soon - when nobody in this country is poor.