Poor Quotes
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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
Bessie Smith -
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
Douglas Jerrold
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Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
Hanna Rosin -
You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
Oscar Wilde -
Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the needs of the poor peasants, would there have been unrest among the peasant masses?
Vladimir Lenin -
Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson -
People who are obsessed with Jesus live lives that connect them with the poor in some way or another. Obsessed people believe that Jesus talked about money and the poor so often because it was really important to Him.
Francis Chan -
Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.
Michael Sweet Boston
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
Larry Holmes -
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.
Harold H. Greene -
I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.
Mother Teresa -
My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.
Herbie Hancock -
The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.
Vivienne Westwood -
In the Dominican Republic, my mom and I lived in this little tiny town called Cabarete, which is very poor.
Maika Monroe
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Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.
William Penn -
One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.
Gary Neville -
We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.
Pedro Martinez -
No matter where its seed fell, it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps, and it was the only tree that grew out of cement. It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts.... That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.
Betty Smith -
Lord, help my poor soul.
Edgar Allan Poe -
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
Wangari Maathai
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If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.
William Shakespeare -
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
Jules Michelet -
All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.
Vladimir Nabokov -
You do not have to have money to attract money, but you cannot feel poor and attract money. The key is, you have to find ways of improving the way you feel from right where you stand before things can begin to change: By softening your attention to the things that are going wrong, and by beginning to tell stories that lean more in the direction of what you want instead of in the direction of what you have got, your vibration will shift; your point of attraction will shift - and you will get different results.
Esther Hicks