Pastoral Resources

I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

With eye upraised his master's looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian, and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.