Poor Quotes

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I don't believe in looking past anybody - I wouldn't look past the Little Sisters of the Poor after they stayed up all night. — Al McGuire
My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat. — Bob Cousy
Oh god, I wish. I really wish. If I'm time-poor, which I usually am, that's the first thing to go. And I know it shouldn't… — Cate Blanchett
I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are… — Barack Obama
We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical… — Albert Claude
I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better. — Sophie Tucker
When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back. — Yogi Berra
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. — Nicolas Chamfort
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call… — Josh Billings
Affirmations are like seed planted in soil. Poor soil, poor growth. Rich soil, abundant growth. The more you choose to think thoughts that make you… — Louise Hay
The best way you hurt rich people is by turning them into poor people — Eddie Murphy
I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me. — Dan Aykroyd
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the… — Saadi
In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge our obligations to… — Marion G. Romney
No, the Lord doesn't really need us to take care of the poor, but we need this experience; for it is only through our learning… — Marion G. Romney
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning — Bill Gates
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls. — Heraclitus
...all the answers are but waiting for us while we, poor fools, ask questions and wait for the secrets of God to open themselves up… — Muhammad Asad
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. — Homer
It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise. — Homer

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