Quotes of: Poor-people Keyword

We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear." "Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?" "Poor grammar skills.

Ephraim's Curious Device

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

Ender's Shadow

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

Gilead

I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.

Burning Lamp (Arcane Society, #8)

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

Brain Droppings

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.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

Love's the son stood stammering elocution while the poor ship in flames went down

The Complete Poems, 1927-1979

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.

Carol Vorderman

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.

Ahmed Ben Bella

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

Bob Barker

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.

John Rhys-Davies

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.

Oprah Winfrey

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.

Herman Gorter

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.

Warren Farrell

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.

Michelangelo

Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.

The Art of Dying

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

Hamlet

No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.

Heart & Mind