I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room. - David Copperfield When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'. - George Foreman

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. - Creighton W Abrams Jr He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent for words, neither for paints nor music; his uselessness is tremendously total. - Curtis Ackie Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. - Douglas Adams There is no end in India, Mr. Jiabao,as Mr. Ashok so correctly used to say. You'll have to keep paying and paying the fuckers. But I complain about the police the way the rich complain; not the way the poor complain. The difference is everything. - Aravind Adiga The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor - they never overlap, do they? See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?...

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. - Bono A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children. - Alveda King

Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough? - Virginia C Andrews Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person. - Mason Cooley When I see a poor person I think of me, and then I think, maybe I should pay my clones for all the work they do for me. Then I think, nah, they're only slaves. Through my clones, I am a slave to myself. - Jarod Kintz When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed. - Mother Teresa I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich. - Jack Kemp You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help. - Jean Kerr Government spending is taxation. When yo...

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement. - Jim Gibbons When you win, sometimes it overshadows a poor performance. - Mike Krzyzewski

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love. - Red Cloud I NEVER lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod; Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God! Angels, twice descending, Reimbursed my store. Burglar, banker, father, I am poor once more! - Emily Dickinson The difference between these people and me is that they finished college and I didn't; as a consequence, they have smart jobs and I have a scruffy job, they are rich and I am poor, they are self confident and I am incontinent... they have opinions and I have lists. - Nick Hornby Everything belongs to me because I am poor. - Jack Kerouac I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse. - Katherine Mansfield

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. - Jesus Christ I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. - Mother Teresa

I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good. - Khaled Hosseini And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good. - Khaled Hosseini

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. - Tupac Shakur You know it's funny when it rains it pours. They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. - Tupac Shakur They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor. - Tupac Shakur

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. - Anatole France If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you. - David Frum Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor. - Pope John Xxiii My dad was born poor, made a fortune during his life, and then died suddenlymurdered by his only son, leaving his vast estate to a daughter I didn't know he had. - Jarod Kintz I have the worst kind of historya non history. I wasn't born poor, oppressed, rich, famous, or any other such extreme. I was born in the middle, and I desperately want to hide it. - Jarod Kintz