Poor Quotes
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Love is a concept invented by poor people.
Brandon Wade -
Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
Erica Jong
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Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.
Carol Browner -
I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.
Mother Teresa -
The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
William Henry Chase -
I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.
Roberto Clemente -
Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries.
Sylvie Meis -
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
Gerrit Smith
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My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.
Joseph Pulitzer -
Being poor is a frame of mind.
Mike Todd -
The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.
Simon Baker -
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
Thomas Sowell -
A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.
Simon Sinek -
It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it.
Sherman Alexie
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I created a foundation for poor children called Sinfonia por el Peru, where they play in orchestras and choirs, learn values and get away from the bad life, become better citizens in every aspect.
Juan Diego Florez -
The unfortunate have claims upon the hearts of those whom God has blessed with affluence.
Eliza Parsons -
When people get at each other's throat, the rich and the poor and the Left and the Right and so on, and you have a basic breakdown, that becomes very threatening.
Ray Dalio -
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
Bill Gates -
If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that. Now I tell people.
Carlos Mencia -
I never got a job from a poor person.
Sean Hannity
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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!
Catherine Doherty -
For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.
Mo Udall -
We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.
Chic Murray -
Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?
Erica Jong