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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.

Quotes by Chubby Checker

I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

Quotes by Chuck Close

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

Quotes by Christine McVie

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

Quotes by Christine Pelosi

I'm not saying the U.S. system is poor at all, because I learned a lot from it. There's a lot of great coaches and good things I did there as well.

Quotes by Christian Pulisic

The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power.

Quotes by Christian de Duve

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

Quotes by Chris Weitz

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

Quotes by Christiaan Barnard

I always wanted to write. But honestly I'm glad I didn't do it back when I was twenty-five or so, when it's now clear to me that I was a very poor writer and could've ruined my career before it even started.

Quotes by Chris Pavone

My mom had to be resourceful. She grew up dirt poor in rural Louisiana.

Quotes by Chris Gardner

Growing up poor taught me a lot. It instilled in me the ethics of hard work.

Quotes by Chieh Huang

It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.

Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Quotes by Chet Atkins

Why do I love kids so much? Because I was never a kid myself. I was too poor to really have a childhood.

Quotes by Chi Chi Rodriguez

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.

Quotes by Che Guevara

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Quotes by Charles Spurgeon

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

Quotes by Charles Palliser

Often, those with the most to lose as a result of a poor policy move are the most vulnerable and most marginalized. Those folks need a voice, and I will endeavor to be that voice.

Quotes by Charles M. Blow

You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't fit the narrative because this is supposed to be the hardhearted, racist, sexist, homophobe, Charles Murray. And he wants to increase spending on the poor? That doesn't fit.

Quotes by Charles Murray

We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we have defined a poverty line, and they're all underneath it.

Quotes by Charles Murray

Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

Quotes by Charles Krauthammer

It is a sin to be poor.

Quotes by Charles Fillmore

In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.

Quotes by Charles Duhigg

Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

Quotes by Charles Evers

Times were poor. I wore hand-me-downs. And because the kids just older than me in the family were girls, sometimes I had to wear my sisters' hand-me-downs.

Quotes by Charles Bronson

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Quotes by Charles Darwin

The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.

Quotes by Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Neither one of the parties is doing anything for poor people. They're both full of it. Black people have been voting Democratic their whole life, and they're still poor. And the Republicans don't do anything for poor people, either.

Quotes by Charles Barkley

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

Quotes by Charles Barkley

Encouraging wellness and prevention helps improve quality of life and can lower costs, too. I saw too many patients who had poor health because of their decisions, but too often, all they needed was a doctor to help point them in the right direction.

Quotes by Charles Boustany

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry - living off water and oatmeal, mind clear.

Quotes by Chadwick Boseman

We learned many years ago that the rich may have money, but the poor have time.

Quotes by Cesar Chavez

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

Quotes by Cesar Chavez

Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world.

Quotes by Cesar Chavez

Though many of the poor have come to see the affluent middle class as its enemy, that class actually stands between the poor and the real powers in this society - the administrative octopus with its head in Washington, the conglomerates, the military complex.

Quotes by Cesar Chavez

As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it's going to be very difficult to win strikes.

Quotes by Cesar Chavez

I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body. Steve and I have worked on issues that benefit poor people, black people, white people, Jewish people. I know his character.

Quotes by Cedric Richmond

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

Quotes by Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Most elderly are retirees with relatively low incomes. But some may possess assets, and they will be classified as poor. As such, the elderly poverty rate could be overstated.

Quotes by Carrie Lam

I love people, but I don't do so well in a system. We're poor, and we lead a very different kind of life. We depend on other people so much.

Quotes by Carolyn Chute

With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.

Quotes by Carolyn Chute

Even if the ocean on Enceladus starts out being as microbially poor as the pelagic ocean on Earth, which is the worst case, we still have a chance of seeing lots of organisms in the plumes.

Quotes by Carolyn Porco

You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.

Quotes by Carolyn See

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Quotes by Carol Vorderman

My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.

Quotes by Carol Burnett

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

Quotes by Carl Lewis

I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.

Quotes by Carl Hart

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

Quotes by Carl Jung

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

Quotes by Camille Paglia

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

Quotes by Caitlin Moran

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

Quotes by C. Northcote Parkinson

But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.

Quotes by Bulent Ecevit

That didn't happen. Still, I had six pretty good years and one where I didn't reach what I wanted for myself or the club. I don't accept that makes you a bad manager or a poor coach. If that is the view I strongly disagree with it.

Quotes by Bryan Robson

We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.

Quotes by Bryan Stevenson

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

Quotes by Bruce Schneier

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

Quotes by Bruce Sterling

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

Quotes by Britt Ekland

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

Quotes by Brian May

It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor superheroes.

Quotes by Brian K. Vaughan

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

Quotes by Brendan Behan

I didn't get bullied any more than anybody else. I think I got bullied more for being poor than being gay. But no more than any other kid. And I'm sure that I did my fair share of picking on other kids, too. We're all humans.

Quotes by Brandi Carlile

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Quotes by Boris Spassky

I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.

Quotes by Bonnie Jo Campbell

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

Quotes by Bono

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

Quotes by Bobby Heenan

Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.

Quotes by Bobby Keys

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

Quotes by Bob Riley

We've got to take care of the poor.

Quotes by Bob Riley

I was raised poor, in a tenement building in Union City, New Jersey, the son of Cuban immigrants.

Quotes by Bob Menendez

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Quotes by Bob Geldof

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

Quotes by Bob Goff

You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.

Quotes by Bob Harper

The level of journalism in this country is just so pathetically poor, and I've, in a sense, gone over the top of them, which they don't like.

Quotes by Bob Hawke

Poor quality of representatives... is not a purely Australian phenomenon - it's a worldwide phenomenon.

Quotes by Bob Hawke

Obama made his no-new-taxes pledge over and over again four years ago as he campaigned. Not only has he repeatedly and blatantly violated it, but his policies have relentlessly assaulted poor and middle-income family budgets.

Quotes by Bob Beauprez

We know that in the Muslim communities around the world, they do not like us. They recruit people from poor areas and turn them into terrorists.

Quotes by Bob Beckel

The nation's children, families, poor, workers, and senior citizens deserve more than lip service. They deserve more than outrage. They deserve real support, protection, and solid action.

Quotes by Blase J. Cupich

We are a people unafraid to welcome 'your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,' because we measure others by the quality of their hopes for the future, not by the circumstances of their birth.

Quotes by Blase J. Cupich

I came to know God when I was 12, started working in the ministry when I was 13, working in the slum area, living among the poor, loving it, and having this belief that to love the poor I needed to be poor.

Quotes by Bo Sanchez

I think poor folks are the only people who cannot afford - financially and otherwise - to be sick.

Quotes by Black Thought

I was poor my whole life.

Quotes by Blackbear

It's a scary, exhilarating thing to have your work adapted by someone else. There are so many ways it can go wrong or be a poor example of the underlying story.

Quotes by Blake Crouch

I just love cars; I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get.

Quotes by Birdman

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

Quotes by Billy Sunday

With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?

Quotes by Bindi Irwin

It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.

Quotes by Bill Vaughan

The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.

Quotes by Bill Vaughan

Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if we're fighting a war on terror.

Quotes by Bill Kristol

Pity the poor senator or representative trying to stay alive in the political jungle. At every turn, there's a danger: a constituent who actually wants something done. Or worse, a campaign donor who might be offended by that something.

Quotes by Bill McKibben

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

Quotes by Bill Gates

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

Quotes by Bill Gates

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't.

Quotes by Bill Bennett

Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy.

Quotes by Bidzina Ivanishvili

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

Quotes by Bhagat Singh

Companies need to weed out drivers who dont drive well or have got poor ratings from the customers.

Quotes by Bhavish Aggarwal

I actually started, as a result of 'Scandal,' instead of wearing a bathrobe, wearing sweaters around at home in my leisure. And my poor husband was very confused! I said, 'It's what Olivia Pope does'.

Quotes by Betsy Beers

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

Quotes by Beth Henley

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

Quotes by Beth Macy

In Finland, where 80 percent of workers belong to unions, all employees enjoy at least 30 days paid vacation, and the gap between the rich and poor is far more equitable than in the United States.

Quotes by Bernie Sanders

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Quotes by Bernard de Mandeville

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