1354 Poor Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely. Marian Keyes

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy. Mario Puzo

Death Beast Wish Own Nothing Think Our Evolution Only Higher Terror Real Dumb Tragedy Sensitivity Poor Suffer

I'd rather be a poor singer/songwriter doing what I love than get rich from selling my soul. Mark Foster

Love Soul Rich Rather My Soul Doing Selling Than Get Poor

As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative. Mark Frauenfelder

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children. Mark Sanford

Needs Parents Other Families Same Children Poor Means Aspirations

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country. Marquis de Lafayette

Property Rights Citizen Country Citizens Some Individual None America Same Poor Landed Richest Even Each Peasants

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too. Martha Reeves

When I was seven we moved to Orpington, and in my new school, I was kept in for extra lessons to learn 'joined-up' writing instead of playing football. I still think that my poor handwriting and lack of soccer skills date from that period. Martin Evans

My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair lecturing the middle class on how to bring up their children? He is far more comfortable as a latter-day exponent of the Poor Law mentality. Martin Jacques

Good Parenting You Class Law Tony Blair Guess Bad More Blair Mentality He Fairly Comfortable How Spread Lecturing Up Middle Children Different Middle Class Social Poor Far Good And Bad Across Groups Bring Imagine Tony

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future. Martin Jacques

Future Emotions Steer Beware Always Poor Your Moment

The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain China, and it is a false prophet. Until we start trying to understand China on its own terms, rather than as a Western-style nation in the making, we will continue to get it wrong. Martin Jacques

Experience Will Nation Own Constantly Record Rather Prophet Wrong Invoke Until Terms Track Track Record Forecasting Understand Making Continue West False Than Model Get Trying China Explain Poor Reason Why Start