Poor Quotes

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.

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

Though I be poor, I'm honest.

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

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

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

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.

There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.

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

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.