Top 1200 Poor Me Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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

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

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Poor parenting may be reflected in poor sibling relationships.

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.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I'd been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I'd say, 'You can't tell me what to do after I've worked a 12-hour day.' It gave me a power that no one that age should have.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.