Poor Quotes - page 98

My message to David Cameron, as the head of our government, is to seriously think again about this Robin Hood tax, the tax to help the poor by taking a little bit from the rich. (Keith O'Brien)
I've been in a poor physical shape many times in my career and I've had some of my best results. My best performances happened because my mind was in the right place. The mind is definitely stronger than the body. View quote
Kelly Slater
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death. View quote
Lady Gregory
There are two kinds of people in the world-only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead in sin or dead to sin. View quote
Leonard Ravenhill
If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion. View quote
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London during the Blitz and you were trying to eke out a living as a hairdresser. View quote
Linda Grant
I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal. View quote
Lisa Loeb
Creative new health strategies like micro-insurance for poor people or Kangaroo care for pre-term babies are transforming health outcomes in even the most low-resource settings. Dedication and innovation are transforming health care worldwide. View quote
Liya Kebede
No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country. View quote
Liya Kebede
Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties. View quote
Lucy Powell
My poor mother. Every time I get a job she asks, "Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?" and I say, "You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom." (Luke Bracey)
The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock. View quote
Lynda Barry
Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind. View quote
Lynda Resnick
People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing. View quote
Lynn Johnston
Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader. View quote
Larry Kramer
Most Americans think that public health is services for poor people, and since most Americans hate poor people and want all poor people's services destroyed, they hate public health. View quote
Laurie Garrett
Europe has to avoid old prejudices and new ones. That means north versus south, rich versus poor. View quote
Mario Monti
We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age. View quote
Madeleine M. Kunin
I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services. View quote
Magdi Yacoub
Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities. View quote
Major Owens
Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here. (Malcolm Wallop)
We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people. View quote
Mamata Banerjee
Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss. View quote
Margaret Geller
Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing. View quote
Margaret Heffernan
I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life. View quote
Margaux Hemingway