Poor Quotes · Page 56

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.

— Leonard Cohen

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

— Amit Kalantri

Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.

— Robert E. Sherwood

To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands.

— William Shakespeare

Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.

— Pope Francis

Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them.

— Matthew Ashimolowo

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

— Khaled Hosseini

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available,…

— Magdi Yacoub

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the…

— George Carlin

The BJP works for the people. For development, for women, for the poorest of the poor. That is the ideology. I identify…

— Jaya Prada

“The poor are so busy trying to survive from one day to the next, they haven’t the time or energy to keep…

— Studs Terkel

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor…

— William Henry Harrison

But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic…

— Bulent Ecevit

In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in…

— Rigoberta Menchu

It's no understatement that the church has done a poor job in teaching our young people that reason and faith are not…

— Charles Colson

Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with…

— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

My wish and hope, every year, is that people's life chances - their chances of having a happy, prosperous, healthy life for…

— Michael Elliott

Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the…

— Larry Elder

Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea…

— Gail Collins

But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed…

— Jim Wallis

Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us…

— Richard J. Foster

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

— Anonymous

America is concerned more with the possibility of moon folks than the reality of hungry poor folks.

— Dick Gregory

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish…

— John Clayton

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

— William Vickrey

“If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.”

— Amit Kalantri

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.

— Simon Sinek

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

— Euripides

We used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the…

— Hillary Clinton

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

— Joseph Jefferson

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

— Henry Ford

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.

— Dorothy Parker

I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me.

— Dolly Parton

The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

— Lester Roloff

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

— Frank Herbert

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

— E. W. Howe