Poor Quotes
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller -
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes, who, after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
Mahershala Ali -
The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
Frances O'Grady -
You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
Haile Gebrselassie -
At that time [1909] the chief engineer was almost always the chief test pilot as well. That had the fortunate result of eliminating poor engineering early in aviation.
Igor Sikorsky -
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
William Shenstone -
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
Iqbal Quadir
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We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.
Isabelle Eberhardt -
Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
A. J. Liebling -
Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class. It would be in the best interests of all if he were removed from school immediately.
Albert Einstein -
I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
Larry King -
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
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It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.
Alan Paton -
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. Chidambaram -
What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
Rand Paul -
I come from a poor family.
Manny Pacquiao
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
William Cobbett -
Many years ago, but not so long ago, there were those who said, 'Well, you have three strikes against you: You're black, you're blind and you're poor,' But God said to me, 'I will make you rich in the spirit of inspiration, to inspire others as well as create music to encourage the world to a place of oneness and hope, and positivity.' I believed Him and not them.
Stevie Wonder -
Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte