Poor Boy Quotes:

If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

topic: Boys, Poor, Poor Boy

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

- Sholom Aleichem

topic: Life, Wise, Dream, Love Is Life, Life Dream

Lately I've been runnin' on faith. What else can a poor boy do?

- Jerry Lynn Williams

topic: Courage, Boys, Poor, Poor Boy

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

- Freddie Mercury

source: Song: Bohemian Rhapsody

topic: Song, Real, Eye, Landslides, Bohemian Rhapsody

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

- Joseph Stalin

topic: Mean, Facts, Division, Antagonism, Poor Boy

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.586, Simon and Schuster

topic: School, Boys, Men, Poor Boy

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Boys, New Orleans, House, Poor Boy, Social Taboos

I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...

- Paul Simon

topic: Lying, Boys, Men, Poor Boy

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

- Elvis Presley

topic: School, Boys, Boots, Poor Boy

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

- Mohsin Hamid

source: Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Growing Up, Boys, Poverty, Poor Boy

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

- Charles Bukowski

source: Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.53, Canongate Books

topic: Poor Boy

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.

- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

source: Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.16, Antonella Gambotto-Burke

topic: Memories, Fall, Boys, Poor Boy

You cannot tell a poor boy from a small country town on the plains of South Dakota who has had the opportunity to be a teacher, a mayor, a senator, and a vice president, that America is not a nation of promise.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

topic: Wisdom, Country, Teacher, Senators, Dakota

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

- Edward Irving

topic: Home, Boys, Night, Leaving Home, Poor Boy

I don't want you to describe to me—not ever—what you were doing to that poor boy to make him sound like that; but if you ever do it again, please cover his mouth with your hand.

- John Irving

topic: Boys, Hands, Want, Poor Boy

Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.24, Graphic Arts Books

topic: Boys, Clothes, Environmental, Old Clothes, Poor Boy

Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a "credit to their race," the women elected to high office, the handicapped who made "useful contributions" to our society.... Just as we believe in the self-sufficient family, we also believe that any child with enough grit and ability can escape poverty and make a rewarding life. But these stories and beliefs clearly reflect the exceptions.

- Kenneth Keniston

source: Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

topic: Children, Believe, Boys, Handicapped, Poor Boy

My husband had a clothing store in Paris, and I had his factory make specifically for me something similar to the one I was looking for. We made it in different colours, and decided to sell them in the store...and in a day, they were sold out! This sweater became later known as the "poor boy sweater" and it ended up making the cover of Elle magazine, and in a day, I became the "Queen of knit", without knowing anything about knitting!

- Sonia Rykiel

source: Source: www.stilorama.com

topic: Queens, Husband, Boys, Sold Out, Different Colours

Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of fame,wine, women, and all the drugs under the sun - one constant companion has never abandoned me . My first true love : singing Its been the savior of many poor boy, and God I know I'm one

- Eric Burdon

source: Eric Burdon, Jeff Marshall Craig (2002). “Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood”, p.316, Da Capo Press

topic: Wine, Boys, Islands, Caribbean, Wild Life

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Great Expectations”, p.343, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Boys, Thinking, Years, Miss Havisham, Susceptibility

Part of what depresses me so much about football is that it's so clearly about exploiting people, most of them poor boys of color, because of what they can do to entertain us, not because we have any genuine concern for them as people.

- Steve Almond

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Football, Depressing, Boys, Genuine Concern, Poor Boy

Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.

- Aravind Adiga

source: Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.163, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Beautiful, Gun, Boys, Poor Boy

Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.

- Malala Yousafzai

topic: Girl, Powerful, Ignorance, Boy And Girl, Girl Power