Politics Quote by John W. Gardner

Growing up not having everything given to me I have realized poverty has stimulated and sparked many successful minds like mine these days.

— Anonymous

Liberal interventions that enable all children to shoot for their potential aren't just moral, they are pragmatic - any society that wastes talent to…

— David Brin

We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector," said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we…

— Louise Penny

Did you say the stars were worlds, Tess?" "Yes." "All like ours?" "I don't know, but I think so. They sometimes seem to be…

— Thomas Hardy

The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for…

— Charles Dickens

“It was frustratingly common that children were no sooner gone from the nest and established in their own homes, in Roger’s case a gleaming…

— Helen Simonson

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

— Thomas Hardy

We want to bring enterprise back to blighted urban areas. People there have been told nothing is ever going to change. The policy makers…

— Majora Carter

“The house had not merely lapsed back into the equilibrium of the woods but was blighted, as if inside it did not contain a…

— Paul Harding

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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…

— Sheila Kamerman

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