The Poor Quotes

The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen.

That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

Being poor in Africa is something people in America can't relate to. Part of the challenge is bringing that reality to people and moving them. You have to arouse compassion.

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.

It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

What about the poor salesman who is calling into the office from the corner saloon instead of the home sickbed he claims he is in?

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.

If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.

I'm not poor, but I'm not rich, either.

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor

More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?

... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

Runners are poor walkers.

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

Real wealth is feeling sorry for the poor

Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor.

I just try to have a good time, enjoy my family, enjoy my life. I was having a blast when I was poor, and I'm having maybe a little bit more now that I've got something in the bank.

In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

The feeling of rich makes you rich. The feeling of poor makes you poor.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.

The poor never get the job done they are sleepy.

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

We are poor in character when we think getting by is a substitute for doing our best.

Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.

Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked. We certainly do.' I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are going to use paper plates and napkins.' Poor Joe!' Lucky Larry!