Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing,"… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
You can't expect that, after a poor fellow has written a book, he should also understand it. — Giovannino Guareschi Copy Share Image
We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries.… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend… — David Platt Copy Share Image
And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes Copy Share Image
I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.' — Lisa Murkowski Copy Share Image
I salute the poor of our country who have deposited more than Rs 20,000 crore in Jan Dhan Bank Accounts. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of… — Jim Gibbons Copy Share Image
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without… — John Green Copy Share Image
