Poor

Famous quotes containing the word poor:

“And you poor creatures—who conjured you out of the clay? Is God in show business, too?”
—John Boorman (b. 1933)

“A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)

“So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)