Poor Quotes - Page 29

The poor know they are in need.

Ask a footballer what they can cook and they always say spaghetti. It is what you reach for when there is nothing else left in the larder. It's poor people's food and it's unsophisticated. It's the same as bread - you just boil it instead of putting it in the oven.

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.

When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.

I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.

Where we come from does not determine who we can become. What we look like places no limits on what we can achieve. We should all have the right to express ourselves, all have the right to be heard, all have the right to be what we can be: To reach for the sky and touch the stars. No matter who we are, no matter whether we are man or woman, or rich or poor: My voice, my right. My voice counts.

By contrast, poll taxes were very effective in excluding blacks, as well as impacting many poor whites; in legal parlance, they were overly inclusive but nevertheless served their intended discriminatory purpose. This [Muslim ban] is fundamentally not the case here.

Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade.

I'm only a poor corrupt official.

We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed.

We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

None are deceived but they that confide.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive.

As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.