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I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

Quotes by Gregory Meeks

Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.

Quotes by Gregg Harper

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

Quotes by Gregory Bateson

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Quotes by Gordon Parks

We spend more on cows than the poor.

Quotes by Gordon Brown

In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously.

Quotes by Godfrey Reggio

I would say I'm a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, if that contradiction can make sense, because in Bolivia, we have a great problem, which is the inequity of income distribution. The rich aren't that rich, but the poor are very poor.

Quotes by Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Quotes by Gloria Steinem

These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted, they think.

Quotes by Gloria Steinem

Social service has always been my priority, and I want to help the poor.

Quotes by Girija Vyas

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

Quotes by Girolamo Savonarola

It's all about the choices we make as a society. We can choose to have poor schools and parks and higher tuition at Rhode Island's colleges. But we should make an active choice.

Quotes by Gina Raimondo

If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvestment and businesses welcome.

Quotes by Gina Rinehart

The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to be spread widely.

Quotes by Gina Rinehart

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

Quotes by Gijs de Vries

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

Quotes by Giancarlo Esposito

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

Quotes by Gideon Welles

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Quotes by Gerrit Smith

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Quotes by Gerrit Smith

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Quotes by Gerrit Smith

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

Quotes by Georges Bernanos

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Quotes by George Wald

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Quotes by George Whitefield

I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!

Quotes by George Saunders

America's vast population of working poor can only get so poor before even Walmart is out of reach.

Quotes by George Packer

The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical nor ecological space for everyone to pursue private luxury.

Quotes by George Monbiot

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

Quotes by George Lindsey

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

Quotes by George J. Mitchell

I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were very, very poor, but we always managed to have enough to keep our bellies full.

Quotes by George Jones

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

Quotes by George Herbert

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

Quotes by George Foreman

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

Quotes by George Gilder

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

Quotes by George Crabbe

You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Quotes by George Cukor

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

George Eliot

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.

Quotes by Georg Brandes

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.

Quotes by Geoff Mulgan

Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important it is to read to your child, to reduce stresses in their life, to use positive incentives and words.

Quotes by Geoffrey Canada

I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

Quotes by Geoffrey Canada

Isn't it wrong to target and brand an entire state in a poor light?

Quotes by Geeta Phogat

It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!

Quotes by Gavin MacLeod

No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.

Quotes by Gary Weiss

Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.

Quotes by Gary Weiss

One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.

Quotes by Gary Neville

I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

Quotes by Gary Ackerman

When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.

Quotes by Gary Bauer

Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under Mao's dictatorship, these poor sheep suffered the same fate as everyone else.

Quotes by Gao Xingjian

Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

Quotes by Gail Collins

I come from a poor community, and I still go back there whenever I can, and I think that makes it easier to cope with fame and being on TV.

Quotes by Gabriel Jesus

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

Quotes by Frederick Marryat

Sweden usually don't play good against the poor teams. We like being the underdogs.

Quotes by Freddie Ljungberg

It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.

Quotes by Fred Savage

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

Quotes by Fred Thompson

Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged.

Quotes by Fred Upton

Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

Quotes by Franz Schubert

Nationalism makes us poor because its Siamese twin, protectionism, will destroy the internal market and disrupt international trade.

Quotes by Frans Timmermans

If nationalism makes us poor, weak, and morally insecure, how can it claim to be patriotic? I maintain that nationalists are unpatriotic.

Quotes by Frans Timmermans

Poor diet and sedentary behaviour have led to an increase in obesity and lifestyle-related disease and a huge rise in chronic medical conditions.

Quotes by Frans van Houten

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Quotes by Frank Ocean

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

Quotes by Frank Carson

In France, the image I had was of a shy girl - a poor lonely girl and not too good-looking. When I went to England, I had another image. I felt the journalists were much more interested in my looks than in my songs.

Quotes by Francoise Hardy

I was born into a poor family but my family's good. I'm good and I'm going to do something great.

Quotes by Frances Tiafoe

I find it interesting where grunge originated from and then where it was taken, which was high fashion. My dad was so poor that they kept going to Goodwill to get donated ripped jeans. It wasn't a fashion decision; it was an 'I don't have any money, I have no other choice' type of decision.

Quotes by Frances Bean Cobain

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

Quotes by Florence Henderson

I was always the poor kid, even though I very much tried to pretend to be the other way. Always well presented. Always really active in the school, doing fashion shows, plays, involved in every single aspect of the school. Overcompensating, I think, for the fact that I knew I wouldn't be going on the ski trip every January.

Quotes by FKA twigs

Christ didn't choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers - that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

For revolutionary Cubans, to cooperate with other poor and exploited peoples has always been a political principle and a duty towards humanity.

Quotes by Fidel Castro

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Quotes by Finley Peter Dunne

Lula's political culture translated into a government project that sought to include the poor in the budget with minimal efforts in terms of structural transformation. The inclusion of the poor would trigger the economy, creating a virtuous cycle of mass consumption market, increased tax collection, more investments, and more benefits.

Quotes by Fernando Haddad

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

Quotes by Ferdinand Mount

A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.

Quotes by Fabrizio Moreira

Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

Quotes by F. Sionil Jose

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Quotes by Evita Peron

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Quotes by Evita Peron

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Quotes by Evita Peron

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Quotes by Euripides

I always have to get my U.K. fix, and 'Downton Abbey' is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one is particularly appealing - following the ins and outs of aristocracy as well as the interaction between the rich and the poor.

Quotes by Estelle

I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.

Quotes by Erland Josephson

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

Quotes by Erica Jong

Once they are charged, too many poor New Yorkers find themselves trapped by our unjust bail system. Unable to pay for bail, they languish in Rikers Island or other jails while they await trial, regardless of guilt.

Quotes by Eric Schneiderman

In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

Quotes by Emmanuel Jal

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Quotes by Emma Lazarus

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

Quotes by Emma Thompson

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

Quotes by Emma Thompson

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

Quotes by Eminem

I am a living illustration of Bosnian mixing and converting. My grandparents lived in eastern Herzegovina. Very poor. The Turks came and brought Islam. There were three brothers in the family. One was Orthodox Christian. The other two took Islam to survive.

Quotes by Emir Kusturica

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Quotes by Emma Goldman

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Quotes by Emily Dickinson

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

Quotes by Elvis Presley

So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people: technology. Illness: technology. As if, somehow, technology in and of itself would be a solution. Yet machine values are not always human values.

Quotes by Ellen Ullman

I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

Quotes by Ellen Hollman

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

Quotes by Eli Broad

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

Quotes by Eleanor Holmes Norton

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

Quotes by Edward Irving

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