Poor Quotes

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

There are but two places where all go after death, white and black, rich and poor; those places are Heaven and Hell. Heaven is a place made for those, who are born again, and who love God, and it is a place where they will be happy for ever.

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

We spend more on cows than the poor.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.