Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.
Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.
Love's the son stood stammering elocution while the poor ship in flames went down
It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.
For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.
Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.
Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.
No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.
Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
There always seem to be very rich people, no matter how poor the country,” Thenoclon said.
When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.
In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.
