Poor Quotes · Page 40

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

— George Foreman

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

— Evita Peron

A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.

— Gene Simmons

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

— Tony Abbott

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

— Richard Lamm

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.

— Aravind Adiga

Make Among the most of your wealth before you become poor.

— Rosie

To say that past managements of Citigroup were poor would be a kindness.

— Steve Eisman

I thought I had been a suffragist before I became a Poor Law Guardian, but now I began to think about the…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I'd always felt the Australian cricketers' behaviour had been appalling. Tampering the ball too constitutes poor behaviour.

— Mickey Arthur

Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor…

— Paul Kersey

There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are…

— Norman Vincent Peale

. . . the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take . . . a pair of shoes for…

— Marsilio Ficino

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never…

— Richard Flanagan

The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom…

— Chaim Weizmann

It's hard for me to congratulate somebody after you just lose to them. I'm a winner. It's not being a poor sport…

— LeBron James

If God, in the Christmas mystery, reveals himself not as One who remains on high and dominates the universe, but as the…

— Pope Francis

If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer…

— Lester B. Pearson

I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some…

— Natasha Trethewey

The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people…

— George Saunders

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor…

— Khaled Hosseini

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking,…

— Alan Dershowitz

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.”

— Rodolfo Costa

I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'.

— Herman Cain

I grew up kind of poor, so like, I know it sounds pretentious, but I don't really know how to spend money.

— Mura Masa

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

— Sean Parker

I had rather be poor in His service than rich in my own.

— Charles Spurgeon

To me, a faith in Jesus Christ that is not aligned with the poor ... it's nothing.

— Edward de Bono

A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.

— Theodore W. Parker

“You will never be able to live with two kinds of people; greedy rich and arrogant poor.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave…

— Ovid

I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

— L. Todd Rose

Racism is an issue in America but is primarily an issue for the poor. It's not LeBron James' issue.

— Jason Whitlock

We fed 'em Xmas and New Years; now all the poor have to do is just fill the few meals until next…

— Will Rogers

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

— Edward Abbey

Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

— William Shakespeare