Poor Quotes · Page 324

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

— Robert Reich

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which…

— Edgar Allan Poe

All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's…

— Noam Chomsky

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and…

— Henry Van Dyke

Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those…

— Anzia Yezierska

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

— Chris Hedges

We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly,…

— Teresa of Avila

I never said, 'Lady Gaga is a poor imitation of me.' That was a completely made-up quote.

— Roisin Murphy

Sometimes it's about playing a poor hand well.

— Donna Tartt

Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day…

— Alan Huffman

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

— Anonymous

Lord help my poor soul.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Of course it would make far more sense to invest in education and job creation in poor communities of color, rather than…

— Michelle Alexander

Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what…

— Albert Camus

I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other…

— Audrey Niffenegger

The first miracle after the baptism of the Holy Ghost was wroughtly upon a beggar. It means that the first service of…

— Anonymous

I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place…

— Marion Dane Bauer

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

— William J. Clinton

You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being…

— Abraham Lincoln

Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.

— T. Harv Eker

I became a soldier, not because I had a military vocation initially, but because it was the only way that that young,…

— Hugo Chavez

.......the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at…

— Israelmore Ayivor

God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.

— Lester Roloff