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“My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.”

Knows Kids Parent Poor Teach Youngsters

Author:Alan Ladd

“I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.”

Thinking Knows Littles Faces Father Parent Poor Taste Negative Britain Swimming Say Anything Glee Poor Taste Little Britain

Author:David Walliams

“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.”

Ifs Knows Poor Share Forests Monkeys Gorillas

Author:Emmanuel Jal

“The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.”

Thinking Knows Way Heart Persons Hard Reason Interest Poor Levels Advice Reason Why Envious Best Interests At Heart

Book:Get Anyone to Do Anything: Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation

Source: Get Anyone to Do Anything: Never Feel Powerless Again--With Psychological Secrets to Control and Influence Every Situation

“When the established members of academia start becoming vocal as to how poor your art is, then you know you're on to something.”

Knows Art Poor Becoming Members Art Is Vocal Academia

Author:Derek R. Audette

“A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.”

Knows Mind Wells May House Black Poor Brain Disease Mortals Poison Suspects Suspicion Plague Pestilence

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.”

People Thinking Knows Want Needs Shows Jobs Actors Poor Standing And Love Miserable Life And Love Standing There Psychosis Love And Death

Author:Charlize Theron

“Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.”

Ifs Knows Men Should Littles Loses Wealth Poor Adversity Riches Substance

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakspeare

“The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.”

Knows Poor Rich Prosperity Get Rich

Author:Leonard Cohen

“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.”

People Knows Giving Hands Night Poor Fellows Bottom Needy Hoover Trickle Down Trickle Down Economics

Author:Will Rogers

“I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.”

People Knows Different Suffering Poor Approach Workers Poor People Different Approach

Author:Roberto Clemente

“On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.”

“I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.”

Knows Men Giving Littles Country Inspiration Care Running Poor Wife Husband Don't Care My Wife I Don't Care Ems Know Me Own Business

Author:Will Rogers

“But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.”

People Knows Firsts Wanted Poor Business Devil Loan Bankers Knocking

Book:Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933

“Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it has fallen in the hands of Mr. Rockefeller, who will take care of it and see that it has a good home and never be allowed to wander around unprotected again. There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war or famine, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.”

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Coolidge years, 1926-1929

“There are some promises in the Bible which I have never yet used; but I am well assured that there will come times of trial and trouble when I shall find that poor despised promise, which I thought was never meant for me, will be the only one on which I can float. I know that the time is coming when every believer shall know the worth of every promise in the covenant.”

Knows Wells I Can Christian Used Poor Trouble Promise Believer Trials Assured Floats Covenant Despised

Book:Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series

Source: Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series

“There was a nobility in poverty when I was growing up. My mom was poor but she was planting roses and she was cleaning the steps, you know what I mean. You didn't feel sorry for yourself.”

Knows Feels Mean Poor Steps Poverty Growing Up Growing Mom Rose Sorry My Mom Cleaning Nobility Feel Sorry For You

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.”

Thinking Knows Men Poor Know How Too Much Fool Habit Healthy Eating Negative Excellent Unhealthy Connotation Eating Habits

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Mind Wells Mean Hard Enough Facts Interest My Own Poor Opinion Adventure Theory Ought Oneself Sincere Sentiments Individualism Know Me Egotism Barren Tiresome

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.”

People Knows Different States Stories Poor Growing Up Growing West Southern Virginia Great Depression West Virginia

Author:James Green

“Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.”

People Knows World Poor Break Records Car Materials Planes Ethiopia World Records

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do you know that Jesus Christ has forgiven your sins? " The man turned at once and said, "How do you know when you have got sugar in your tea?”

Knows Men Said Christian Jesus Christ Sin Poor He Man Jesus Christ Fellows Tea Companion Do You Know Sugar Forgiven

Author:John Bartholomew Gough

“Your street, rich street or poor Used to always be sure, on your street There's a place in your heart you know from the start Can't be complete outside of the street Keep moving on through the joy and the pain Sometimes you got to look back To the street again Would you prefer all those castles in Spain? Or the view of your street from your window pane?”

Knows Looks Heart Sometimes Pain Moving Used Joy Poor Views Rich Streets Window Spain Castles Keep Moving Window Panes

Author:Van Morrison

“Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.”

Knows Evil Imagination Poor Flow Doctors Medical Mortals

Author:Charles Churchill

“When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just men who are too drunk to turn off the TV after football. It's women, too. I don't know exactly why, other than that I've tried to remain true to myself for all these years. I have gone through a lot, and I've been open about it. Maybe they look at me and can see how you can grow up, have children, continue to be sexy, get married and divorced and, though you grew up poor, live the American dream. I'm very blessed. I'm happy for it all.”

“Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Wells May I Can Helping Feelings Wanted Speak Poor Half Know How Trouble Dog Strange Sorry Dumb Ems Our Words Being Sorry Dumb Things

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better.”

Knows World Should Mind Looks Made Ends Remember Bits Sin Poor Clear Saws Trouble Taste Creatures Mouths Conscience Should Have Fellows Casts Heavy Ems Mischief Breeding Workmanship

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.”

Knows Men Feels Poor Poverty Down And Broke Wheels Engines Poor Man Lonesome

Author:Bob Dylan

“Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.”

Source: The Letters of Charles Lamb: To which are Added Those of His Sister, Mary Lamb. Edited by E.V. Lucas

“I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.”

Ifs Knows Enough Sound Poor Powerful Principles Support Path Too Much Terrible Creatures Weak Complicated Confusion Judgement Spiders Creeps

Book:Popular Scientific Lectures

Source: Popular Scientific Lectures

“We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.”

Knows Art Poor Appreciate Hollywood Profession Tin Buffoons

Author:Robert E. Howard

“It's a bunch of bull! If God, or nature, or whatever you want to call it didn't want you to mix carbohydrates, starches and fats, you'd never have a grain, you'd never have a vegetable or a fruit, would you? What's in a grain? It's got carbohydrates, starches, fats, sugar. It's got everything in it. Why does nature do that? One guy says don't mix carbohydrates, and the other guy says don't mix protein with it; it's all a bunch of lard, something to sell a book. And the poor public is so confused, they don't know what to do.”

Ifs Knows Want Doe Book Guy Poor Sells Fruit Bunch Fats Confused Vegetables Sugar Grain Bulls Other Guys Protein Carbohydrates So Confused Lard

Author:Jack LaLanne

“It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.”

Knows Feels Made Country Poor Red Feel Good Indian Canada Patriotism Reserves Great Country Pheasants

Author:Allen Sapp

“Dear lost sinner, if you are a wicked sinner, yet you do not have to die and go to Hell forever. If you are a criminal or a harlot, a blasphemer, a drunkard, a convict, or a dope fiend, God does not want you to go to Hell. People do not go to Hell simply because they are sinners. Rather they go because they will not repent of their sins! If you today will confess your sins to God, and in your poor, helpless heart, will, as far as you know how, turn away from your sin, God will have mercy and will forgive and save.”

Source: The Ruin of a Christian

“But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.”

Ifs Knows May Children Shows Christ Love Is Poor Enemy Wife Neighbor Servant Finding Yourself Serving God Benevolence Needy

Author:Martin Luther

“The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not.”

Knows Stills Wisdom Politics Wealth Poor Secret Economy Rich Blind Definitions Dumb Liberalism Lazy Productive Deaf Halt Unemployed Uneducated

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.”

Knows Way Doe Poor Levels Rich Economic Conscience Capitalism Resources Flow Permit Doomed Privileged Riches And Poors Economic Resources

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.”

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.”

Knows Poor Owners Establishment Thieves Superfluous

Author:Horace

“Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.”

Knows Poor Finals Pity Thrill Millionaire

Book:Since You Ask Me

Source: Since You Ask Me

“Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.”

Knows Men World Way Reality Lying Poor Practice Products Ideals Perfection Scales Alas Approximation

Book:On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

“Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?”

Knows Mean Seems Able Born Poor Knowing Conscience Intellect

Book:Pollok's Course of Time

Source: Pollok's Course of Time

“To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.”

Knows Able Poor Poverty News Good News

Author:Mother Teresa

“The first time I received an award, I was very surprised. I did not know whether to accept it or not. But I came to the conclusion that I should accept awards in the name of the poorest poor, as a form of homage to them. I think that basically, when awards are given to me, the existence of the poor in the world is being recognized.”

Thinking Knows World Should Firsts Form Names Given Poor Existence Accepting Poverty First Time Conclusion Awards Poorest Homage

Author:Mother Teresa

“To put it quite crudely ... the poor don't really know how the rich live, and the rich don't know how the poor live, and to find out is really enchanting to both of them.”

Knows Poor Know How Rich Enchanting

Book:Endless night

Source: Endless night

“To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.”

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state-- Though poor myself, I know the fortunate: First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense: Then perseverance, never to decline The chase of riches till the prey is thine; And firmness never to be drawn away By any passion from that noble prey-- By love, ambition, study, travel, fame, Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume

“We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.”

People Knows Faces Poor Poverty Rich Photograph Poor People Rich And Poor Affluence

Author:Dorothea Lange

“My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.”

Source: The Joy Luck Club

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