Poor Quotes · Page 58

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

— Salman Rushdie

Never made it as a wise man. I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing.

— Nickelback

Rich people believe - I create my life; poor people believe - life happens to me

— T. Harv Eker

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

— Winston Churchill

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

— Siri Hustvedt

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

— Christopher Marlowe

“Maskini ni mdogo kuliko matatizo yake. Tajiri ni mkubwa kuliko matatizo yake.”

— Enock Maregesi

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

— Marco Rubio

My Country's trying to save the World, stop the wars, relieve the poor, feed the hungry, heal the sick and liberate the…

— David Berg

A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.

— Rohini Nilekani

The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent.…

— N. T. Wright

“All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness,…

— bell hooks

Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.

— Martin J. Whitman

People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never…

— Lynn Johnston

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than…

— Lord Byron

I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If you look at it on just a very cold scale, corporations and the government do not care about the poor. So…

— Mr. Lif

The working poor in the South are often blamed for their reliance on "traditional" Southern food, while in reality, most are eating…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To…

— Stanley Hauerwas

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy…

— Barack Obama

There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of…

— Desmond Tutu

“I've always thought that was the lamest argument — that we need some people to be poor in order to remind the…

— Josephine Angelini

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

— Ann Coulter

“If you don't understand the principles of giving, money will make you poor.”

— Alin Sav

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

— Ben Affleck

Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.

— Alison Arngrim

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

— Georges Bernanos

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

— Sitting Bull

Boys, I have been rich and I have been poor, and believe me being rich is better.

— Joe E. Lewis

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

— Samuel Johnson

We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

— Roger Ebert

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

— Joe Queenan

Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

— Nancy Pelosi

“Thank God (my wife) and I were both born poor so the concept of fidelity was allowed to take root in us.”

— Allan Wolf

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

— Robert Burton

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

— Edmund Waller

“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.”

— Oscar Wilde

Youthful beauty is a poor indicator of long-term appeal in a man.

— Robert Rinder