quotes about Poor
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There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
-- A. J. LieblingSource : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.22, Macmillan
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You can't help the poor by being one of them.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.
-- Adrian Rogers -
No one is so poor that they cannot give, and no one is so rich that they cannot receive.
-- Adrienne Clarkson -
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
-- Agnes de Mille -
You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.
-- Al Koran -
I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.
-- Alan Kay -
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My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.
-- Alan Ladd -
If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...
-- Alan Watts -
You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.
-- Albert Camus -
It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
-- Aldo Leopold -
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A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.
-- Alex Steffen -
The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
-- Alexander Pope -
Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.
-- Alexander Pope -
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Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!
-- Alfred the GreatSource : The Doom Book (Legal Code of Ælfred the Great), 893.
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Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. 'Broke' is 'poor with hope'.
-- Alison Arngrim -
When all a man has is worldly wealth, he is poor indeed.
-- Alistair Begg -
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Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
I was born to poor because of honest parents.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Long distance relationships through mobile communication generally becomes poor because of the weak signals and ends up due to jammed networks
-- Amit Abraham -
It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.
-- Andre Breton -
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Only the poor can create art.
-- Andrei CodrescuSource : Speech at a public forum held at the Los Angeles Public Library, April 28, 2010.
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Always my fallback is - I'm gonna move to a poor town and open a scone shop.
-- Andrew RannellsSource : "Andrew Rannells ‘Book of Mormon’ Star Talks Life, White Strips & Mucinex". Interview with Sandi Durell, theaterpizzazz.com. July 17, 2013.
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Reflect that in reality you have a greater need to serve [the poor] than they have of your service.
-- Angela Merici -
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Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.
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I have the grace of providence to be poor.
-- Antonio de Oliveira SalazarSource : "Salazar and his time" by César de Oliveira, The Official Publisher, (p. 98), 1991.
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Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.
-- Anzia YezierskaSource : Anzia Yezierska (1979). “The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection”
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If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.
-- Arnold Bennett -
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I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights
-- Art Linkletter -
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
-- Arthur Helps -
Outsiders tend to be the first to recognize the inadequacies of our social institutions. But, precisely because they are outsiders, they are usually in a poor position to fix them.
-- Atul Gawande -
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I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.
-- Augusto PinochetSource : Speech, June 29, 1982.
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The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.
-- Barbara EhrenreichSource : Barbara Ehrenreich (2010). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”, p.221, Macmillan
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the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.
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But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
-- Barney Frank -
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
-- Beatrix PotterSource : Beatrix Potter (2013). “Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics
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There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.
-- Ben Affleck -
Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.
-- Ben Bova -
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
-- Benjamin Cardozo -
We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.
-- Benjamin TuckerSource : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “Instead of a Book”
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Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
-- Bernard CrickSource : Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.11, Bernard Crick
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Breakin' in cribs with a crowbar I wasn't poor, I was po', I couldn't afford the 'o-r'
-- Big L -
By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.
-- Bill Gates -
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
-- Billy Sunday -
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Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.
-- Blake Griffin -
I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;- "Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!" He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:- "Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!
-- Bram Stoker -
I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.
-- Britt Ekland -
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The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.
-- Bryan StevensonSource : Bryan Stevenson (2014). “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, p.21, Spiegel & Grau
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All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, `Look at the poor dope, wilya?
-- Buster KeatonSource : Buster Keaton, Charles Samuels (2015). “My Wonderful World Of Slapstick”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing
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The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers
-- C. K. PrahaladSource : "Integrating the Rural Poor Into Markets" by Bibek Debroy, Amir Ullah Khan, (p. 17), 2004.
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The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
-- C. L. R. JamesSource : C L R James (2001). “The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution”, p.445, Penguin UK
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He wasn't completely wrong, poor old Gemistus (let Lord Andronicus and the patriarch suspect him if they like), in wanting us, telling us to become pagan once again.
-- C.P. Cavafy -
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.
-- C.P. Cavafy -
anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.
-- Caitlin Thomas -
Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?
-- Cardinal Mazarin -
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If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
-- Carol VordermanSource : "Carol Vorderman: I'm single for the first time in my life - and I really like it!" by Julie McCaffrey, www.mirror.co.uk. September 28, 2011.
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Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
-- Chance the Rapper -
The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.
-- Charlayne Hunter-GaultSource : "Debriefing: Charlayne Hunter-Gault on Jacob Zuma". Interview with Samantha Henig, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2010.
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The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
-- Charles A. Murray -
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Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about that thing himself.
-- Charles Churchill -
There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
You don't have to look poor, you don't have to look down; For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all; but it is not a mind regulator unless you allow it to be.
-- Charleszetta Waddles -
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Proper preparation prevents poor performance.
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Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.
-- Charlotte Beers -
They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.
-- Chris Hedges -
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There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.
-- Chris OyakhilomeSource : The Daily Telegraph, 1977.
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I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.
-- Chris WeitzSource : "My LA: Chris Weitz On Hidden Neighborhoods, Food Trucks & Malibu". Interview with Lucy Blodgett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2011.
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I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.
-- Christine McVie -
I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.
-- Chuck Close -
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Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.
-- Chuck Klosterman -
Most jury trials are contests between the rich and poor.
-- Clarence Darrow -
Poor Lucas, always trying to protect me from danger. He’d never guessed that I was the dangerous one.
-- Claudia Gray -
A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.
-- Claudio Hummes -
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I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
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They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
-- Creighton W. Abrams, Jr. -
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
-- Criss Jami -
Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.
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Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.
-- Cyril BurtSource : Cyril Burt (1922). “Mental And Scholastic Test”
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I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'
-- Dave Ramsey -
I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.
-- David Brainerd -
The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.
-- David Brooks -
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Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.
-- David Gemmell -
What invariably distinguishes a good player from a poor one is their respective address positions or setups.
-- David Leadbetter -
The bible informs us, compels us to care for the poor, to love the outcast, to serve the needy.
-- David Platt -
Poor health is not caused by something you don't have; it's caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get, it's something you have already if you don't disturb it.
-- Dean Ornish -