Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality. — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs… — Mark Sanford Copy Share Image
“If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The American Dream is individualistic. Martin Luther King's dream was collective. The American Dream says, "I can engage in upward mobility and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Poor Ron Paul. He means well. He really does. But there's something about him. I don't know what it is. From falling… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
A community that is growing rich and seeks only to defend its goods and its reputation is dying. It has ceased to… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things for me to do is be fully open in a poem. By that I mean, honest and… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more,… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having… — Daniel Greenberg Copy Share Image
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and… — Dan Phillips Copy Share Image
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The way I live now is that I only write, which means that I'm very poor but very happy. Everything in my… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
In the U.S., requiring voters to produce photo ID in order to vote is just part of a much wider and more… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas… — Emmanuel Jal Copy Share Image
The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts. — Paul McKenna Copy Share Image
For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You think Jay-Z is going broke? LeBron is going broke? These guys have figured it out. They came from poor backgrounds, broken… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn't say I lived in a ghetto,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and… — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
And so long as I can laugh, never will I be poor. This then, is one of nature's greatest gifts and I… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which… — Vida Goldstein Copy Share Image
Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“Hi Frnds, i agree u dont have time to go to charity and help poor. But when ur eyes catch 'em on… — Raam Copy Share Image
