Top 1200 Poor Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.

Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.

People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is no solution to poverty. Poverty is the creation of opportunities like everybody else has, not the poor people, so bring them to the poor people, so that they can change their lives.

The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.

I can move, but I've never background-danced for anybody.

It seems to me that large numbers of people are now paying attention to poverty and that large numbers now understand that blaming the poor and the insecure for being poor and insecure is as unseemly as is schoolyard bullying. In that realization lies hope for a reinvigorated discourse around poverty and inequity in modern-day America.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.

If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.

I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

What is the price of justice? What is the price of justice? When bail is set unreasonably high, people are behind bars only because they are poor. Not because they're a danger or a flight risk - only because they are poor. They don't have money to get out of jail and they certainly don't have money to flee anywhere.

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in rural areas, and are still Catholic. These bishops of the Catholic churches still pray for the poor, and pray for their president who works for the poor, while the leaders of the Catholic Church only defend oligarchy.

Well... I still can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. These politicians are such sleazebags that you just don't know. You can't really get anything from a lot of them once they get into power. They totally forget about all their commitments. The poor people elect them, and they forget about all the poor people.

No matter our background, we all have crazy families.

The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich.

The only difference between a rich man and a poor man, is that the poor man suffers uncomfortably, while the rich man suffers comfortably.

You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!

My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

I have a classical music background. I studied violin and trumpet.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

Economic background should not be a reason for not learning music!

Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Coming from a uniformed background I can relate to the army.

I grew up with a very religious background.

Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you.

If all we've got is the dirt poor and the filthy rich, the dirt poor would eat the filthy rich.

Background singers who are any good have to be great imitators.

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire greatness. Mediocre or poor works inspire mediocre or poor learning. The great accomplishments of humanity are the key to quality education.

Alcohol was the background color in the fabric of Reggie's life.

I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

I come from a traditional hip-hop background.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus.

I belong to a purely agricultural family from a rural background.