Poor Quotes

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 you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.