Poor Children Quotes:

The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Children, Mean, Defeat, Poor Children

I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

- Landon Pearson

topic: Children, Mean, Skills, Survival Skills, Poor Children

He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.

- Dwight L. Moody

topic: Children, Overcoming, Poor, Poor Children

A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Children, Shoes, Poor, Poor Children

Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Children, Men, Toys, Poor Children

The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

- Laurence Sterne

topic: Education, Children, Foundation, Poor Children

If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to bed hungry while I was on earth and read aloud a list of my eBay purchases. I shudder to think of it. Explaining to a poor child with a swollen belly why I didn't give his village fifty cents a week but spent twenty-seven dollars in a bidding war for a Mars Attacks coffee cup.

- Dana Gould

topic: Children, War, Coffee, Poor Children

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

- River Phoenix

topic: Children, Kids, Names, Old Clothes, Rich Kids

Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

- Gwen Ifill

topic: Children, Kids, Odds, Poor Children

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

- Joyce Cary

topic: Mother, Children, Poor, Poor Children

A poor child who receives high-quality early childhood development is 40 percent less likely to need special education, twice as likely to attend college and dramatically more likely to survive childhood.

- Shakira

source: Source: www.americasquarterly.org

topic: Children, College, Childhood, Special Education, Poor Children

Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.

- Newt Gingrich

source: "Is There Truth In Gingrich's Remarks On The Poor?". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

topic: Monday, Children, Giving, Poor Children, Poor Neighborhoods

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

- Charles Perrault

source: Charles Perrault (2016). “Little Thumb (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Der kleine Däumling (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.2, Clap Publishing, LLC.

topic: Brother, Children, Littles, Discreet, Poor Children

Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

- Kenneth Keniston

source: Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

topic: Country, Children, Dangerous World, Public Health, Poor Children

The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Easter, Clever, Children, Easter Bunny, Casanova

We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

- Cornel West

source: "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

topic: Children, People, Priorities, Poor Children

Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

- Eleanor Clift

topic: Children, Cuba, May, Poor Children

When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as well as white, we need to push toward integrated schools.

- Cornel West

source: "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

topic: Children, School, Black And White, Poor Children

Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We're not nazis; we're nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people's children into an economic and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves, "Well, I hope that they don't kill each other off. But if they do, it's not my fault.

- Jonathan Kozol

topic: Summer, Children, Nice, Summer Camp, Poor Children

What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits? How much of their creative beauty of spirit would remain unquenched through the years? How much of this responsiveness would follow them through life?

- Mary Heaton Vorse

topic: Children, Years, People, Social Welfare, Poor Children

Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's only she's married me," he said, "though if ye care to call it an accident, ye may.

- Diana Gabaldon

source: Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.331, Dell

topic: Children, Care, May, Poor Children

Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education of poor children of the same, an authority which, being altogether superfluous if the provision is to be the result of pious charity, would be a precedent for giving to religious societies as such a legal agency in carrying into effect a public and civil duty.

- James Madison

source: James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

topic: Religious, Children, Agency, Poor Children

That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Dog, Children, Earth, Poor Children

Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive their free[dom] . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.

- George Washington

topic: Children, Writing, Law, Poor Children, Doms

I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool.

- Julie Garwood

topic: Children, Giving Up, Order, Greatest Treasure, Eleanor

For me Oliver Twist is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.

- Henning Mankell

topic: Children, Political, Twists, Oliver Twist, Poor Children

Competitive skills are desperately needed by poor children in America, and realistic recognition of the economic roles that they may someday have an opportunity to fill is obviously important, too. But there is more to life, and there ought to be much more to childhood, than readiness for economic functions.

- Jonathan Kozol

topic: Children, Opportunity, Skills, Poor Children

We cannot rest while Brazilians are going hungry, while families are living in the streets, while poor children are abandoned to their own fates and while crack and crack dens rule.

- Dilma Rousseff

source: "Dilma Rousseff Wins Brazil's Presidential Election". www.theguardian.com. November 01, 2010.

topic: Children, Fate, Cracks, Dens, Poor Children

Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of our work as much as they detest most of our politics. Instead of rationally debating subjects like abortion or gay rights, they condemn as immoral those who favor choice and tolerance. They disown their own dark side and magnify everyone else's until, at the extreme, doctors are murdered in the name of protecting life. I wonder, who is this God they invoke, who is so petty and mean? Is God really against gun control and food stamps for poor children?

- Barbra Streisand

topic: Children, Mean, Dark, Food Stamps, Poor Children

All lives have equal value. And so you say, 'why do poor children die when other children don't? Why do some people have enough nutrition or reasonable toilets and other people don't?' So those basic needs that, through innovation, actually it's very affordable to bring them...to everyone.

- Bill Gates

topic: Poor Children, Basic Needs

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.

- David Wilkerson

topic: Children, Latin, Men, Latin America, Poor Children

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

topic: Children, Poor, Said, Poor Children

The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts serving poor children to compensate for issues related to poverty. Since the enactment of NCLB, the focus on mitigating poverty has been replaced by a focus on accountability as measured by test scores.

- Pedro Noguera

topic: Children, War, School, Test Scores, War On Poverty

But I hope to maintain my credibility after I stop playing. Because, yes of course, now I play and I score goals and children all over are mad about me. Not just poor children - all children. We can make them really happy by the way we play, though I have to say that it's the poor ones that I think of most, the ones who can't come and watch the games at the stadium. We mean so much to them. That's why I'm so committed to this work. Later, after you've stopped playing, it's harder to have the same impact. But I will give it a go. I want to continue doing this kind of work for ever.

- Cristiano Ronaldo

source: "The Revival Of The Fittest". www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2002.

topic: Poor Children

There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.

- William Easterly

source: William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.11, Penguin

topic: Children, Book, Medicine, Marshall Plan, Poor Children

I cannot be alone in being pretty nauseated by Red Nose Day, or at least its television manifestation. Do I think that wretchedly poor children in Africa should get food and life-saving drugs? Of course. Do I want to be hectored into contributing by celebrities who earn more in a 10-minute slot than many of these families get in a year? Nope.

- Simon Hoggart

topic: Children, Thinking, Years, Life Saving, Being Pretty

September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Children, Feelings, Betrayed, Chests, Poor Children

Look what they did to MaCauley Culkin. The poor child. I know because I've been there. But I could say after living my life, truth will always win out. And no one can take my character away from me anymore.

- Linda Blair

source: "Interview With the Exorcist's Linda Blair". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

topic: Children, Character, Winning, Poor Children