Poor Quotes
I love rich people. Any time I needed a job, I went to a rich person. I like poor people, but they never had a job for me.
When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them
Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?
For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.
We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
Doom very evenly! Do not doom one doom to the rich; another to the poor! Nor doom one doom to your friend; another to your foe!
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.
Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.
Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved.
Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.
The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.
Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"
He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.
The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.
In small space a player has to be capable of acting quickly. A good player who needs too much time can suddenly become a poor player.
The difference between a politician and a snail is that the snail leaves its slime behind. Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that - situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy - Jamaica has no reason to be poor.
Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.
Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value. Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.
Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people
Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.
We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.