Poor Quotes

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
Erica Jong

Women, Rich, Between

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.
Mike Krzyzewski

False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod

Confidence, Him, Poverty

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Sidney Poitier

Father, Important, Race

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
Sidney Poitier

Father, Him, Seen

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.
Jean Kerr

Money, Hope, Help

The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.
Jonathan Sacks

Small, Left, Bible

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.
Muhammad Yunus

Money, Working, Idea

I went to the bank and proposed that they lend money to the poor people. The bankers almost fell over.
Muhammad Yunus

Money, Almost, Bank

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
Thomas Mann

Family, Die, Rich

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.
Giada De Laurentiis

Life, Work, Death

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.
Thabo Mbeki

Hope, Human, Living

Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein

Rich, Africa, Investors

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Government, Else, Dream

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

The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.
Julie Burchill

Money, Here, Off

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
Malcolm Wallop

Powerful, Here, Minds

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
Zinedine Zidane

Life, Struggle, Football

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Parents, Party, Communist

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

Logic, Cause, Effect

Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.
Lee Myung-bak

Blessed, Parents, Young

I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!
George Saunders

Care, Night, Living

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.
Aneurin Bevan

Fellow, Suffers, Files

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
Anthony Trollope

God, Hero, Last

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.
Jeffrey Kluger

Home, Book, Thought

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
Barry Commoner

Food, Through, Earth

Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I should know. I'm a children's writer myself.
David Walliams

Children, Often, Books

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.
Jeremy Rifkin

Food, Die, Poverty

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
Cornel West

Working, Here, Chance

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