Quotes of: Poor-people Keyword

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.

William Adams

Companies like Husk Power Systems are working to impact positively not only the environment, but to ensure that someday everyone, including the poorest of the poor in rural India, will have access to clean and affordable electricity.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Sri Chinmoy

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I love nice things - I consider Ralph Lauren sheets to be a necessity, not a luxury - but I've known what it's like to be poor.

Martine McCutcheon

I'm not really one for reading books. I have a very poor attention span. I'd rather listen to music, play games or watch films on my iPad.

Olly Murs

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Andrew Jackson

It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Andrew Johnson

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

Abraham Kuyper

The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

Ann Landers

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

Andreas Schleicher

No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

Beth Ditto

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Aristotle

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

Patrick Stewart

To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost.

Life

No one is too poor to give a smile - a gift, often, of greater consequence than any sum of money.

Vironika Tugaleva

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.

William Bligh