Top 424 Poorest Quotes & Sayings

Any country that accepts abortion is the poorest of the poor

I was one of the poorest people in America.

If we are all endowed by our creator with the right to pursue happiness, that has to apply to the poorest neighborhoods in the poorest counties, and I am prepared to find something that works, that breaks us out of the cycles we have now to find a way for poor children to work and earn honest money.

Anger is the poorest of counselors, and revenge is suicide.

Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions?

For me, as the Government of India, the interest of the poorest of the poorest is paramount.

In the poorest of the poor we see Jesus in distressed guise.

The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it?s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Sex appeal alone is the poorest basis in the world for a happy marriage.

The wealthiest 300 people have greater riches than the three billion poorest. The three wealthiest people have greater riches than the 48 poorest countries put together. With only limited environmental space to accommodate the expected 9 billion human inhabitants of the world by 2050, such disparities in consumption are clearly not sustainable

The protestor I think will speak up for the world's poorest.

The best food I've ever eaten in my life has come from the poorest communities.

Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest.

When my father started talking about strip mining in the Appalachia back in the '60s, I remember a conversation I had with him where he said, you know, this is the richest state in the country if you look at the resources and the land, but the poorest people after the state of Mississippi: the 49th poorest people in the country.

Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.

Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress.

Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

Most poor people live in the poorest countries.

When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man shall have no satisfaction if the poorest alive tread upon him, nor the poorest receive any contentment in being made equal to princes, for they shall be equal but in dust.

Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe the third major target of US intervention, probably ranks third poorest.

To turn away a guest is poorest poverty; To bear with fools is mightiest might.

India has the largest number of hungry people. Yet it's an outcome of precisely the same mechanism. It's the control of agriculture that drives down the price it paid for food that it buys from farmers, who are the poorest people. Then you're paying very little for food. You're underpaying the poorest people in any society. Then they're marketing to us the things that are most profitable to them. And those are the things that are packaged and processed and what-have-you. That means you have the simple thing of the explosion of obesity and hunger as a result of capitalism in our food system.

I'm the poorest famous person in the country.

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.

A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

The poorest service is repaid with thanks.

No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.

You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible.

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest.

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live.

The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.

I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.

The BJP works for the people. For development, for women, for the poorest of the poor. That is the ideology. I identify with it.

We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?

The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved.

The greatest man in history was the poorest.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness are concerned. Let me say it in this way: the man of wealth is the poorest rich man. Looked at from the side of the poor, he is the richest poor man. Looked at from the side of a creative artist, of a dancer, of a musician, of a scientist, he is the poorest rich man. And as far as the world of ultimate awakening is concerned he cannot even be called rich.

Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.