I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
My siblings and I were raised like tenants, to be honest. There was a total absence of intimacy in my family, though… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I have killed, robbed and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine and I would… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor. — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained… — Alice Hamilton Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Assuming that tomorrow will be the same as today is poor preparation for living. It equips us only for disappointment or, more… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
Were all the pleasures in the world, even pure air, made solely for the rich? I think it is immoral - it… — Ellen Buckingham Mathews Copy Share Image
Every single progressive education fad of the past thirty years has hurt poor black children. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Most poor people earn more than minimum wage when they are working; their problem is not low wages. The problem comes when… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
And in those varieties of pain of which we spoke anon, what a part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor. — Mark W. Smith Copy Share Image
He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether… — Regine Chassagne Copy Share Image
“The height of a man’s wall or fence is usually a reflection of the depth or shallowness of his neighbours’ pockets.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be Blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
Making mistakes is part of learning to choose well. No way around it. Choices are thrust upon us, and we don't always… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense — Ovid Copy Share Image
There's nothing like being in fashion. A man that has once got his character up for a wit is always sure of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
