Pastoral Resources

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor.

I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.

Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

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!

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a very good keyboard player. People think I think I'm good. I think I'm a very poor piano player.

I think I'm a very poor piano player.

God has always been hard on the poor.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.