Needy Quotes

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Saint Augustine

Love, Men, Help

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Government, Children

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney

Good, Freedom, Waiting

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
Evita Peron

Him, Rich, Same

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Publilius Syrus

Gift, Season, Favor

America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.
Thomas Peterffy

Success, Care, America

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.
Anjelica Huston

Person, Healthy, Full

Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm; he's cool; he's self-possessed. In many ways, he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy, often undisciplined, emotionalism.
Dee Dee Myers

Cool, Sometimes, Often

I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.
Martha Plimpton

Life, Loved, House

I realised that God has placed Christians everywhere, to support each other, to support the needy in those areas, and that is the thing that I find is a great plus.
Cliff Richard

Great, God, Find

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.
Jennifer O'Neill

Person, Goes, Choosing

I'm independent. If a guy is too clingy or needy, I actually get afraid of hurting him - and I can't deal with that.
Ashley Greene

Him, Afraid, Hurting

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.
Abdul Qadeer Khan

Help, Trying, Poor

I might be needy, competitive and desperate but it's far better than being wet.
Jenny Eclair

Far, Might, Desperate

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
Gloria Steinem

Food, May, Less

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.
Richard Gere

Different, Through, Acting

I think mankind is overly sensitive, very needy, greedy, and flawed.
Craig Kilborn

Greedy, Sensitive, Mankind

Nerds are just deep, and neurotic, fans. Needy fans. We're all nerds, on one subject or another.
Jonathan Lethem

Deep, Another, Fans

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.
Dana Rohrabacher

Children, Both, Spend

There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!
Douglas Wood

Nothing, High, Stage

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
Gary Ackerman

Life, Blessed, Poor

We're very needy people, you know.
Alex Van Halen

My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.
Chris Kattan

Self, Down, Made

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students.
Hilda Solis

Youth, Community, Students

First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.
Bobby Hull

Help, Important, Game

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.
Cheryl Strayed

Life, Home, Mother

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