Poor Quotes · Page 54

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.

— Louisa May Alcott

“The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

— Jonathan Kozol

I generally don't regret decisions that have poor outcomes for me because that's the best way you can learn.

— RJD2

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

— Andrew Young

If China has cheap labour, Africa has cheaper labour. This is why China started buying out poor countries.

— Vivek Agnihotri

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality!…

— Thomas Aquinas

No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because…

— Ann Coulter

If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you…

— Rush Limbaugh

Those are the films I want to make. I don't want to make a film about, "Oh, those poor prostitutes!" Or "Oh,…

— Kim Longinotto

This is a pattern-bargaining industry, like railroads. You need to pay market to get a contract at all, and without contracts, you…

— Oscar Munoz

No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the…

— John Lancaster Spalding

Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as…

— Cornel West

A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent…

— B. C. Forbes

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the…

— Francis Bacon

“FLIES IN DISGUISE Tell me, Have you Really seen Flies in a child's eyes Or heard their hungry cries In the middle…

— Suzy Kassem

Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes…

— George Holyoake

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In Shanghai, I saw great contrasts. On one street there would be impressive shops selling copies of the latest word in glamorous…

— Doris Lessing

“I liked this rich lifestyle, but I loved the poor lifestyle better. The less money people had, the less greedy they seemed…

— Shannon A. Thompson

The availability of downloads is fantastic, but you don't know which musicians are playing on the songs anymore. It's kind of making…

— Paul Young

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

— Arthur Melvin Okun

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

— Marya Mannes

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

— Emma Lazarus

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

— Henri Rousseau

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin

— Donnie McClurkin

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

— Oleg Cassini

Poor people are those who only work to try to keep an expensive lifestyle and always want more and more.

— Jose Mujica

I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

— Taylor Sheridan

The worst thing to be in America and anywhere on the planet is poor.

— Jason Whitlock

If the sea turned to honey, the poor would lose their spoon.

— Vikrant Parsai

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

— William Bligh

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

— Oprah Winfrey

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

— Plutarch

Let us resolve by God's grace that, however feeble and poor our prayers may seem to us, we will pray on.

— J. C. Ryle

“If you don't act like your poor, pretty soon you will be”

— Ronald A. Martin Jr