Poor Quotes · Page 57

“It's so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.”

— Louisa May Alcott

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

— David Copperfield

Standing with the poor means walking away from unethical leaders, even when their companies are 'succeeding.'

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

— Molly Ivins

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

— M.I.A

All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.

— Anonymous

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

— Bill Gates

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself'…

— Jim Rohn

Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one piss-poor bluffer.

— Jeannette Walls

The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the…

— Robert G. Allen

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it…

— Henri Nouwen

If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city…

— Sandra Cisneros

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an…

— Aristotle

People are swept into the criminal justice system - particularly in poor communities of color - at very early ages... typically for…

— Michelle Alexander

To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But…

— A. Lee Martinez

“No more apologies! So we're poor! All right, we're poor! This is America! And America is one place in this sorry world…

— Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr

So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing…

— Pope Paul VI

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also…

— Albert Einstein

How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why…

— Ambrose

Barack Obama thinks this country is a crime. Obama thinks this country is a walking, living crime, the way it's treated poor…

— Rush Limbaugh

Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard. He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard and its…

— Dr. Seuss

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

— Maxim Gorky

“Rich or poor, strong or weak, who among us has not begged God for a second chance?”

— Joseph Conrad

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them

— Anonymous

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

— Homer

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

— Orhan Pamuk

“I'm too poor to afford the luxury of hysteria right now.”

— Tahereh Mafi

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

— Paul Collier

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.

— Mason Cooley

Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor

— James Madison

Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor, and wise are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

— Gregory Meeks

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

— Sidney Poitier

I feel terrible for women that have had Phil Collins tattoos. Their poor husbands have to deal with.

— Phil Collins

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

— Logan Pearsall Smith