Poor Quotes - Page 18

• Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Running, Opposites, Quality

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• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  Natasha Leggero

  Thinking, Interesting, Becoming

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• We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.

  Roger Ebert

  Dream, Mortals

  Roger Ebert (2010). “The Great Movies III”, p.150, University of Chicago Press

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• My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

  Bryan Stevenson

  School, Kids, Community

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• I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

  William Booth

  Jesus, Heart, Army

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• Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

  Dave Checketts

  Sports, Long, Fans

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• I thought of what might be, if only the people who have too much money would help those who have too little!

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  People, Littles, Might

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• I want to stress again the importance of really living what we claim to believe. That needs to be a priority-not just in our personal and family lives but in our churches, our political choices, our business dealings, our treatment of the poor; in other words, in everything we do.

  Charles J. Chaput

  Stress, Believe, Choices

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• It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “Power, Wealth, Illusions”, p.76

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• I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

  Christine McVie

  Rich, Ashamed, Enjoy

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• A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

  David D. Burns

  Mistake, Glasses, Self

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Memories, People, Tag

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• I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.

  Margaret George

  Philosophy, Men, Worry

  Margaret George (2012). “Elizabeth I”, p.318, Pan Macmillan

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• Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Suffering, Desire, Fool

  Peter J. Carroll (1987). “Liber Null & Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic”, p.87, Weiser Books

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• Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

  Herman Melville

  People, Deception, Trying

  Herman Melville (2015). “Redburn's First Voyage: Works of Melville”, p.17, 谷月社

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• I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Adventure, Men, Skills

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.

  Richard Attias

  Loss, Growth, Type

  "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.

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• Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Doctors, Water, Tubs

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• Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.

  Luther Burbank

  Skills, Atheism, Neanderthals

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• Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

  Honore de Balzac

  Music, Two, Kind

  "Massimilla Doni" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and James Waring, 1839.

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• The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

  Mark Twain

  Breathing, Luck, Desert

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.

  Dolly Parton

  Struggle, People, Stupidity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.

  Will Smith

  Growing Up, People, Negative

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• That's the cool thing about horses - they don't have prejudice. They don't care if you're tall or thin or if you're dark or if you're light, or if you're rich or you're poor, if you're handsome or not so handsome.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Dark, Light

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Long, People, Liberty

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