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title: "4 Father Poor Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [“One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/corrie-ten-boom/one-day-as-father-and-i-were-returning-from-our-walk-we-found-the/)

[Corrie Ten Boom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/corrie-ten-boom/)

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> [I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-poitier/i-d-seen-my-father-he-was-a-poor-man-and-i-watched-him-do-astonishing/)

[Sidney Poitier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-poitier/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be1/sidney-poitier-4270_astonishing_i-d-seen-my-father-he-was-a-poor-man-and_232184.jpg)

> [My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sidney-poitier/my-father-was-a-poor-man-very-poor-in-a-british-colonial-possession/)

[Sidney Poitier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sidney-poitier/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c5/sidney-poitier-4270_british_my-father-was-a-poor-man-very-poor-in-a_2401184.jpg)

> [Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anzia-yezierska/though-my-father-was-poor-and-had-nothing-the-torah-the-poetry-of/)

[Anzia Yezierska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anzia-yezierska/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b1/anzia-yezierska-21338_bread_though-my-father-was-poor-and-had-nothin_3235528.png)

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