I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.
It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.
The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.
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.
He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.
Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.