poor Quotes

More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

You know all those models who say, 'I was so tall and lanky and everyone picked on me at school' - I was not that girl. I hear that and I'm like, 'Oh, you poor thing!'

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

I, like many annoying pedants, will wince when someone says 'less' when they should have said 'fewer.' But my 'poor' sounds like poo-ah, not pore; and my 'grass' rhymes with mass, not farce. What's wrong with that?

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one.

Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues, European missteps, and an economic and financial crisis that crashed down on us with enough force to dislodge the essential European idea.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

The rich support the poor primarily via taxes.

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.

I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare.

The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

Even a poor man doesn't ask alms unless he sees you have the ability to give.

As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

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