Poor Quotes

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.

Yes, in socialism the rich will be poorer - but the poor will also be poorer. People will lose interest in really working hard and creating jobs.

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance.

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

And plenty makes us poor.

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.