Top 1200 Poor Background Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

Zef is, you're poor, but you're fancy. You're poor, but you're sexy; you've got style.

Every time you hear that the majority of Democratic candidates go on stage, they say poor women of color need access to abortion. I was born to a poor woman of color. I was a poor woman of color when I gave birth to my children. Who's to say that their lives are worth any less than others?

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal and state bureaucracies - that also operates to destroy their faith. The ideology takes the form of false theories of discrimination and spurious claims of racism and sexism as the dominant forces in the lives of the poor.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

There is no country on earth that has done more for our own poor and for the poor around the world. We are not the ones that need to be targeted.

There are 500,000 poor children in this state that did not choose to be poor, and we have to take care of them.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.

Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Since Day 1, we have maintained that ours is a Government dedicated to the poor and will continue to work dedicatedly for the welfare of the poor.

Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.

I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor - that if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is.

A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.

with a country of rare picturesqueness for a background, a people of rare beauty for actors, everybody more or less permeated with the artistic instinct and everybody more or less writing poetry - California has a pageant for breakfast, a fiesta for luncheon and a carnival for dinner. They are always electing queens. In fact any girl in California who hasn't been a queen of something before she's twenty-one is a poor prune.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

For sure I think the traditional martial arts is a good background to have and definitely allows me to do a lot different things inside the cage. My wrestling background definitely helps me out a lot, but I don't think either one led directly to MMA.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on the poor not the rich, the pariah not the brahmin, the black not the white, the underdog not the top dog, the dissenter not the conformist. . . The law barks at all but bites only the poor, the powerless, the illiterate, the ignorant.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of artists from Asia focus too much on their Asian background. I don't want to let go of my background, but to be a success in the U.S., which is my goal, I realize I need to surround myself with American filmmakers and producers.

I've been working my way to doing my first feature film for about ten years. So I went through the commercials route and some people come from a theatrical background and some people come from a writing background, but I directed commercials

We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.

Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

The poor is the center of the Gospel. If we take out the poor, we cannot understand the message of Christ

Just watching people who come from a stand-up background is different from watching people who come from an improv or sketch background.

That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.

The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.

Plants don't close from poor workmanship, but from poor management.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

In a way, no one's harder on the poor than the poor themselves.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

If you look at my life, I wasn't just poor; I was rich and poor.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

They [Harvard academia] liked the poor, but didn't like the smell of the poor.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.