Poor Quotes

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems.

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.