The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.

Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.

I don't like being watched, and I don't like being told what to do, so acting is a very poor professional choice.

I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

Divinity lies in service to the poor.

I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal.

I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.

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

If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.

No house was so poor as not to have its 'family altar,' its shelf of wooden gods, and table of offerings. A religious atmosphere pervades Tibet and gives it a singular sense of novelty.

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

I was born in South Carolina. On my dad's farm, I didn't have much. I'm just a poor kid who worked in a produce market.

I'd always felt the Australian cricketers' behaviour had been appalling. Tampering the ball too constitutes poor behaviour.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.