Quotes and Sayings About Poor

Poor me, poor me, pour me another.
-- George Galloway

#Poor #Poor Me

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
-- George Mason

#Slave #Poor #Despise

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

#Praying #Poor

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

#Children #Poor #Said

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

#Christ #Poor #Patches

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

#Rich #Mercy #Poor

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.
-- Giancarlo Esposito

#Boys #Poor #Boy Scout

[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

#Recovery #Doctors #Poor

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

#Children #Climbing #Poor

When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out.
-- Greg Gutfeld

#Moving #Government #Poor

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

#Jobs #Poor #Johnson

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.
-- Gregory Bateson

#Causes #Logic #Poor

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

#California #Grandfather #Poor

The burden of disease falls on the poor.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland

#Fall #Disease #Poor

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

#Commitment #Poor #Liberation

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.
-- Gustavo Gutiérrez

#Poor

So you say you love the poor? Name them.
-- Gustavo Gutiérrez

#Names #Poor

Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.
-- H. Beam Piper

#Powerful #Rich #Poor

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.
-- H. Rider Haggard

#Religious #Poor

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.
-- Ha-Joon Chang

#Country #People #Poor

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

#Judging #Intention #Poor

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

#People #Car #Poor

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

#Mean #Lectures #Poor

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.
-- Harry Reid

#Regret #Choices #Poor

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.
-- Heber J. Grant

#Teaching #Example #Poor

The poor know they are in need.
-- Heidi Baker

#Needs #Poor

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.
-- Helen Bevington

#Slavery #Guilty #Poor

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.
-- Helmut Kohl

#Christian #Poor #Made

Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.
-- Henry Demarest Lloyd

#Justice #Rich #Poor

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.
-- Henry Hampton

#People #Needs #Poor