Poor Quotes - page 8

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast. (Richard Rogers)
The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers. View quote
C.K. Prahalad
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. View quote
John McGahern
Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse! View quote
Cornelia Funke
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness. View quote
Langston Hughes
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin. View quote
Wendell Willkie
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me a communist. View quote
Hélder Câmara
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right! View quote
Al Lewis
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor. (Ferdinand Mount)
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. View quote
George Wald
In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously. View quote
Godfrey Reggio
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails. View quote
Herman Gorter
As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food. View quote
Herman Gorter
You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available. View quote
Harold H. Greene
Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year. View quote
Polly Toynbee
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. View quote
Rod Taylor
In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come by. Even though he was a highly skilled man, a maker of furniture, the payment for that work was very poor. View quote
Trevor Nunn
I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. (Edmund Waller)
My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them. View quote
Kirk Douglas
Whoever you are, no matter what social position you have, rich or poor, always show great strength and determination, and always do everything with much love and deep faith in God. One day you will reach your goal. View quote
Ayrton Senna
To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them. View quote
Samuel Pepys
Look at your body- A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. View quote
Thomas Ligotti