Poor Quotes
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Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.
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We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!
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The poor are the blacks of Europe.
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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.
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Humility exists only in those who are poor enough to see that they possess nothing of their own.
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Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school.
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Take care of the poor people of my country.
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The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum wages to your own workers.
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It's not the job of government to help the poor. The church is the mechanism that God put on earth to help the poor.
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The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric.
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Love is a concept invented by poor people.
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I was determined not to remain poor.
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Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.
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With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
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..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.
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If you live in poor neighborhoods - I know from living in several poor neighborhoods - the worst supermarkets in the city are in the poorest neighborhoods, where people don't have cars.
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We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.
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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
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It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.
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People have habits about what they think songs should be like. There's the folky thing of: "Poor me, I'm a sensitive person in a cruel world." Or the pop thing of: "Hey, look at me, I'm sexy."
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I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
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Oh my poor soul, what is to become of you? - Where do you go?
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Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman
