Quotes and Sayings About Poor

You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn’t determine who you are. You must all realize what you’re worth on your own.
-- Koushun Takami

#Realizing #Rich #Poor

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.
-- Kristin Davis

#New York #Poor #Waitress

Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#People #Rich #Poor

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Beer #People #Poor

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.
-- Lactantius

#Justice #Needs #Poor

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.
-- Lady Gaga

#Rich #Poor

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.
-- Larry Elder

#Law #Benefits #Poor

I have noticed that everyone who has ever tried to tell me that markets are efficient is poor.
-- Larry Hite

#Business #Finance #Poor

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
-- Larry Holmes

#Black #Poor

I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project
-- Laura Hillenbrand

#Dysfunction #Get Better #Poor

Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.
-- Laurie R. King

#Pride #Pieces #Poor

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
-- Leonardo da Vinci

#Education #Doe #Poor

God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.
-- Lester Roloff

#Blessing #Poor #Needy

Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter
-- Lester Thurow

#Entrepreneur #Economy #Poor

Few save the poor feel for the poor.
-- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#Poverty #Poor #Feels

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.
-- Lewis Goldberg

#Liberty #Mouths #Poor

To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing
-- Lilian Whiting

#Friendship #Rich #Poor

You lose your manners when you're poor.
-- Lillian Hellman

#Poverty #Poor #Manners

I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.
-- Lillie Devereux Blake

#Mean #Earning #Poor

You must be poor. why? cuz ur not making any cents!
-- Lisi Harrison

#Cuz #Poor #Cents

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
-- Lord Byron

#War #Poor #Should

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
-- Loretta Lynn

#Pregnancy #Nervous #Poor

No one is ever too old, too rich, too poor, to pray.
-- Loretta Young

#Praying #Rich #Poor

I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.
-- Louis MacNeice

#Son #Poor #Marble

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#Hate #People #Poor

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#Men #Desire #Poor

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.
-- Louisa May Alcott

#Dull #Poor #Colorful

Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.
-- Louise Closser Hale

#World #Poor #Streets

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.
-- Louise Erdrich

#Evil #Moral #Poor

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.
-- Louise Slaughter

#Low Income #Poor #Lows