Top 1200 Poor Family Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

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

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.

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.

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

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

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

Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

Mama, you know, poor baby, she'd had her family all finished: four daughters and a couple of sons, and suddenly, I arrived in her midlife on Christmas Eve 1922.

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

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

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.

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

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

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

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

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

I grew up in a really poor city. It was difficult, but I always had in my head that I would win, that I would be a professional player, help my family and friends, and realise my dream.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.

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

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Public policy today is favoring the rich, not the poor. It's not addressing the needs of the poor.

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

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.

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

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

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

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

My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

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

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

I was born in India, and we came from a poor family and lived in a rural village. My dad came over to Canada as a refugee, and years later, we were able to join him.

I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.

Family values represent the core values and guidelines that parents and family members hold in high regard for the well-being of the family. Sincere family feelings are core heart feelings. They are the basis for true family values. While we have differences, we remain family by virtue of our heart connection. Family provides necessary security and support, and acts as a buffer against external problems. A family made up of secure people generates a magnetic power that can get things done. They are the hope for real security in a stressful world.

India believes that the world is a family, and the best means of resolution is shared discourse. A family is shaped by love and is not transactional; a family is nurtured by consideration, not greed; a family believes in harmony not jealousy.

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

Poor people want to be poor; if they just worked harder they could have more.

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

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

When the government sees a poor area, its solution is to move the poor out.

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

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

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?