The Poor Quotes

I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food.

It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and to get any taste, they have to use all that ranch dressing.

I think that we need to measure how we give dollars to libraries by need. And the communities that are poor, in my opinion, should get more because you have to do more outreach.

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.

With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

Try to sell cold callers something and be very insistent. Works well. Also good for door-to-door sales people, especially if they're wearing poor shoes.

I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged.

The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.

... and with my last thought I felt some real sympathy for those poor chickens.

I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.

Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life?

My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.

Well, if you’re through taunting poor Mike, are you ready to go? (Nick) You give me any lip, little boy, and there won’t be enough left of you to run through a sieve. (Zarek)

I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.

Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor.

Iran is a rich country, and if the people of this country are poor, it's because of the wrong policies of the government.

The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.

In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.

Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

I'm poor, not homeless.

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment.

It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.

Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get poor all over them?

Not one poor reader reported a lot of pleasure reading.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka.

I neither look up to the rich or down to the poor.

Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don't quite line up.

The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I’m not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor white people as well.

Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.

Those of you who have the talent to do honor to poor womanhood, have all given yourself over to baby-making. . .

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .

Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good.

I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!

Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

I've always enjoyed poor health

The poor are too busy working to need justice.

If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot