Poor Quotes

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

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 never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

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.

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow.

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

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.