My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.
There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.
If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.
Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
Africa and indeed Nigeria has always been a paradox, an inexplicable contraction of a blessed land with a poor masses
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.
I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.
