Quotes of: Poor-people Keyword

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Richard Rogers

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Sholom Aleichem

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

Sidney Altman

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Michael Caine

The state of my poor boy's health prevents me from leaving home for a night.

Edward Irving

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Carol Bellamy

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

Samuel Horsley

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

Vincent Tan

Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

Natalie Jeremijenko

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital.

Benjamin Tucker

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

Michel de Montaigne

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Jean-Paul Sartre

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Bill Gates

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

Lord Byron

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem

Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

Ian Mckellen

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.

Henry Miller

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

Dolly Parton

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Benjamin Franklin