Quotes of: Poor-health Keyword

They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

Wendie Malick

Tevye: You are just a poor tailor! Motel: That's true, Reb Tevye, but even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness!

Fiddler on the Roof

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't m...

Richard Russo

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Pope Francis

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

Thomas Sydenham

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

Barbara Castle

Back in Russia we were dirt-poor. Here in the West we are still poor but have risen above the dirt to tower alongside stalks of grass!

Vera Nazarian

A rich person is just a poor person with a crown and elaborate clothing, and a poor person is just a rich person with a crownless head and ragged clothing.

Zanjabil

I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

Emma Thompson

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

Gwen Moore

A satisfied man is happy even if he is poor; a dissatisfied man is sad even if he is rich.

Chinese

The poor can only guess at what wealth is; the rich don't know what poverty means.

Chinese

The poor ones give their alms in a humble way, the rich man throws them down with contempt.

Chinese

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Yiddish

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.

Proverb

And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed, as Jesus did, they get in trouble. Once we are actually friends with the folks in struggle, we start to ask why...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Slowly, God is opening my eyes to needs all around me. In Scripture, God revisits this issue of caring for the poor- an echo that repeats itself from Genesis to Revelation. The Bible acknowledges that the poor will always be part of society, but God ...

The Sacred Echo: Hearing God's Voice in Every Area of Your Life

...the controlling of the sex nature builds up a reservoir of strength, and it is this strength that opens the door to the Innermost.

The Dayspring of Youth: Harness Nature's Highest Energy for Health, Happiness, and Spiritual Elevation

A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath.

Green Tea Living: A Japan-Inspired Guide to Eco-friendly Habits, Health, and Happiness

I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.

Michael Moore

Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, harmony, and a 'sound mind in a sound body'.

Sophie's World