Poor Quotes · Page 53

“In this city, the rich had some room, and the middle class had less, and the poor had none.”

— Vikram Chandra

The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

— Anna Lindh

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.

— Dan Fogelberg

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.

— Wangari Maathai

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

— Benjamin Franklin

We are not so poor we must destroy our wilderness, nor so rich we can afford to.

— Newton B. Drury

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

— Cory Doctorow

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case…

— Christopher Reeve

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless…

— John Kasich

Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product…

— John Hope Bryant

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to…

— Lionel Trilling

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present…

— Don Herold

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they…

— Edward Dyer

Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one…

— Zafrullah Chowdhury

When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or…

— Wale

The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage,…

— Emma Goldman

...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular…

— Bernardino Ramazzini

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America,…

— William T. Vollmann

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or…

— Arabella Weir

Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means…

— Mother Teresa

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we [americans]…

— Arthur C. Brooks

I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is, that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The people down there are poor enough, and scared enough, and ignorant enough to have some common sense.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

For nearly a decade, I thought it was obvious that I was poor.

— Stephanie Land

The law in its majesty prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges.

— Anatole France

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

— Bob Menendez

Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!

— Garrison Wynn

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity… All they need is financial capital.

— Muhammad Yunus

sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice.

— Tarun J. Tejpal

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

— Julia Caroline Dorr

A developed country isn’t a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.

— Anonymous

“I suppose it is just one of the lessons that we poor women have to learn . . .”

— Bram Stoker

Every true work is not done to the poor. Every true work is done to Me.

— Watchman Nee

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

— Bill Gates

“Its time to think rehabilitation of poor people one by one.”

— Fuzael Ahmed

It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.

— Joshua Reynolds

“If you need money to be rich, you will always be poor.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

— Stephen Gardiner