Quotes and Sayings About Poor
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The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
-- George Mason -
Do you recall Fred Merriville?†She stared at him. “Fred Merriville? Pray, what has he to say to anything?†“The poor fellow has nothing to say: he’s dead, alas!
-- Georgette Heyer -
Horatia said eagerly: "Oh, you will take m-me instead?" "No," said Rule, with a faint smile. "I won't do that. But I will engage not to marry your sister. It's not necessary to offer me an exchange, my poor child." "B-but it is!" said Horatia vigorously. "One of us m-must marry you!
-- Georgette Heyer -
I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?
-- Gertrude Atherton -
I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.
-- Giancarlo Esposito -
[After a poor prognosis for recovery from her doctor following her 1990 bus accident] I said if it is up to me, I'm going to be OK.
-- Gloria Estefan -
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.
-- Greg Child -
When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out.
-- Greg Gutfeld -
Oh, poor me (jokingly, after being told that Randy Johnson & Pedro Martinez would make more in 2003 than he would). What do I do now? I guess I'll have to get a second job.
-- Greg Maddux -
Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.
-- Gregory Bateson -
We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfather grew up. He grew up during the Depression in Riverside.
-- Greta Gerwig -
The burden of disease falls on the poor.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland -
If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.
-- Gustavo Gutiérrez -
The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.
-- Gustavo Gutiérrez -
So you say you love the poor? Name them.
-- Gustavo Gutiérrez -
Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.
-- H. Beam Piper -
I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.
-- H. Rider Haggard -
People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.
-- Ha-Joon Chang -
Judging others’ intentions is the right of God alone. We don’t have this right, and it is poor manners with God.
-- Habib Ali al-Jifri -
You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
-- Haile Gebrselassie -
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
-- Harold H. Greene -
I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.
-- Harry Reid -
Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.
-- Heber J. Grant -
The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.
-- Helen Bevington -
The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.
-- Helmut Kohl -
Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.
-- Henry Demarest Lloyd -
Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
-- Henry Hampton