Poor Quotes
5043 quotes by 2780 authors
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We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
— Thomas Day
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Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly…
— Stand Watie
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We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and…
— Howard Carter
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During the winter when the weather is too poor to work outside, I do use drawings and photographs, but I change my work so it…
— John Dyer
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
— Uta Hagen
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The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
— Herman Gorter
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Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way,…
— Herman Gorter
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The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and…
— Herman Gorter
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God has always been hard on the poor.
— Jean-Paul Marat
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We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.
— Martin Feldstein
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In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and…
— William Adams
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Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan…
— William Adams
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People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
— Lynn Johnston
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.
— Antonia Fraser
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Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.
— Timothy Murphy
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I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor…
— Edwidge Danticat
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These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that…
— Marcy Kaptur
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Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people working together racially, ethnically, rich and poor…
— Walter Washington
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I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
— Pat Buckley
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