Poor Quotes

• We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Moments
  • Sick
  • Dying

• The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number of working poor, struggling to survive, who don't have enough money to put adequate food on the table. We must find a solution to this ever-increasing problem - and quickly.

  

  Scott Glenn
  • Problem
  • Struggle
  • Enough

• We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.

  

  Hal Varian
  • Problem
  • Obesity
  • Calories

• If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Done
  • Easy

• As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Mean

• Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

  

  George Sarton
  • Men
  • Kind
  • Mistake

• Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poor
  • Little
  • Estimation

• There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Age
  • Evil

• I wish I had a dollar for every pro-choicer who told me that abortion has to be accessible for poor women... as if being poor makes you an unfit mother.

  

  Abby Johnson
  • Mother
  • Poor
  • Unfit

• If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Love
  • Helping

• During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

  

  William Julius Wilson
  • Problem
  • Groups
  • Disadvantaged

• There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Differences
  • Class

• Religion is the opium of the poor.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Poor
  • Opium

• The poor, who see no refuge or hope, cry aloud to a God who makes no reply, and then envy springs up in them when they consider the comforts and opportunities of the rich. They see the rich profligates, the wealthy fools, enjoying themselves unpunished. Turning to the teacher of religion, they meet the reply to their questioning of the justice which will permit such misery to those who did nothing requiring them to be born with no means, no opportunities for education, no capacity to overcome social, racial, or circumstantial obstacles, "It is the will of God."

  

  William Quan Judge
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Obstacles

• ..poor art for poor people.

  

  Arshile Gorky
  • People
  • Art
  • Poor

• Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

  

  Nicholas von Hoffman
  • Poor
  • Aid
  • Agriculture

• Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.

  

  Virginia Postrel
  • Problem
  • Wife
  • Comedian

• There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.

  

  Bat Masterson
  • Winter
  • Poor
  • Hold

• The poor lady must have dropped that", she said, and undid the gate stepping out to get it. Jared put his hand on it, "No". Mrs Jeffries stared down at him. "What do you mean...no?" Jared and Mrs.Jeffries stared back at each other,neither breaking eye contact in a perfect deadlock. Then Jared smiled at her. "I mean", he said with conviction, "it's mine." "It's what?" Jared stood up, pocketing the lipstick. "I know", he responded. "Everyone tells me i'm more of a summer". Mrs.Jeffries continued to stare. Jared continued to speak. "I'm going to go now. Me... and my lipstick.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Perfect
  • Mean
  • Speak

• The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

  

  Norman Thomas
  • Poor
  • Doctrine
  • Thrift

• The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Paradise

• Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

  

  Anthony B Pinn
  • Poor
  • Worked
  • Harder

• I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

  

  Nicolas Sarkozy
  • Work
  • Hard
  • Poor

• To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Remembered
  • Contempt
  • Recompense

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