Poverty Quote by John Meade Falkner

““Poverty’s a chilly theme,” he said; “let’s take something to warm us before we go on with the variations.””

John Meade Falkner

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Poverty

More by John Meade Falkner

“We thought there was no more behind But such a day tomorrow as today And to be a boy eternal.”

John Meade Falkner

Image

“It is sad when man’s unhappiness veils from him the smiling face of nature. The promise of the early morning was maintained. The sky was of a translucent blue, broken with islands and continents of clouds, dazzling white like cotton-wool. A soft, warm breeze blew from the west, the birds sang merrily in every garden bush, and Cullerne was a…

John Meade Falkner

“Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.”

John Meade Falkner

Image

“She went back to the kitchen, for the kitchen of the Hand of God was so large that Miss Joliffe and Anastasia used part of it for their sitting-room, took the pencil out of “Northanger Abbey,” and tried to transport herself to Bath. Five minutes ago she had been in the Grand Pump Room herself, and knew exactly where Mrs…

John Meade Falkner

“For Nature, if she once endows man or woman with romance, gives them so rich a store of it as shall last them, life through, unto the end. In sickness or health, in poverty or riches, through middle age and old age, through loss of hair and loss of teeth, under wrinkled face and gouty limbs, under crow’s-feet and double…

John Meade Falkner

“Westray remembered the organist’s manner in the church, and began to suspect that his mind was turned. The other read his thoughts, and said…

John Meade Falkner

Image

“Is there any depression so deep as this? is there any night so dark as this first eclipse of the soul, this first conscious…

John Meade Falkner

Image

“He was in that broken mood for which the Middle Ages offered the cloister as a remedy; he felt the urgent need of sacrifice…

John Meade Falkner

Image

“A little later Anastasia was sitting before her bedroom fire writing. It has a magic of its own—the bedroom fire. Not such a one…

John Meade Falkner

Image

“...Will you not join me in a cup of cocoa? The kettle boils.” Mr Sharnall’s face fell. “You ought to have been an old…

John Meade Falkner

Image

Explore all 11 John Meade Falkner quotes

More Poverty quotes

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

Grace Lee Boggs

I know that in the rap game you've got a lot of people, that come from poverty, was born in poverty and if it…

Jon Connor

Image

“The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.”

Sunday Adelaja

Image

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate,…

Edward Young

Image

Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic…

Sheila Kamerman

“Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Image

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American…

P. J. O'Rourke

“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to feed your family, and sometimes even your own liberty, the idea of the mutually supportive poor community is demolished. The poor blame one another for the choices of governments and markets, and we who are not…

Katherine Boo

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

Kofi Annan