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Saturday, September 28th, 2024
the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Poor'

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We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
Thomas Day, British Author (1748-1789)
Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.
Mark Dayton, American Politician (1947-  )
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Democritus, Greek Philosopher
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
Princess Diana, British Royalty (1961-1997)
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Charles Dickens, English Novelist (1812-1870)
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens, English Novelist (1812-1870)
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily Dickinson, American Poet (1830-1886)
Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.
Trent Dilfer, American Athlete (1972-  )
A great artist is never poor.
Isak Dinesen, Danish Writer (1885-1962)
So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.
David Dinkins, American Politician (1927-  )
Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman (1804-1881)
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne, British Poet
No matter how poor my eyes are I can still talk.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American Journalist (1890-1998)
And plenty makes us poor.
John Dryden, English Poet (1631-1700)
The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.
Patty Duke, American Actress (1946-  )
When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have.
Patrick Duncan, South African Politician
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
Finley Peter Dunne, American Journalist (1867-  )
Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything.
Santiago Durango, American Musician
I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.
Sanjay Dutt, Indian Actor (1959-  )
A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.
Andrea Dworkin, American Critic (1946-2005)
 
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