Poor Quotes

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.

It is extremely important that mass media, having freed from the relics of the Cold War, served for peace and dialogue between nations and religions, the rich and the poor, countries and continents.

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.

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

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.

I grew up poor.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.