Top 1200 Poor Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!

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

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

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

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.

No matter where I'm at in life, whether I'm in the music industry, rich, poor, everybody need love in their life. Gangsta or not, everybody need love in their life. You can't act too hard about that.

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.

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

I've been poor most of my life.

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

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

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

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

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

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

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

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

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Love your life, poor as it is.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.