Top 1200 Poor Boy Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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.

Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

I've never wanted to be a poster boy, but if I'm going to be a poster boy for anything, it should be this. If you don't give up, and if you carry on believing in yourself when others are doubting you, you can make it.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

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

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

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

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

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

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

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.

Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

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

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

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.

You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

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

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

Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.

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.

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

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

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

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

In my class - in all fifth-grade classes - we were required to read 'classics,' books like 'Shiloh,' which is about a white boy and the dog he rescues. And 'Old Yeller,' which is about a white boy and the dog that rescues him. And 'Where the Red Fern Grows,' which is about a white boy and the two dogs he trains.

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

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

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

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

Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold." Question: What's the probability they will kiss?

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

I see myself as half country boy and half city boy, so I need both to balance me out. I couldn't spend all of my time in either place.

I didn't know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother's going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it. Nowadays, he lives in a world we don't understand too well, the actor's world. We don't see too much of him. But he's a good boy, my Jim. A good boy, and I'm very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He's not easy to understand. But he's all man, and he'll make his mark. Mind you, my boy will make his mark.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

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

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

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.

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.

I think anyone who has a boy would tell you that they do the sort of things that make you look at them and ask why they would do that. 'Oh right, because you're a boy.'

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.

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

The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

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

I did want a boy child because I had this romantic idea that a boy child when he's 16 takes his mother out for dinner.

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.