Famous quotes containing the word poor:
“Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chainat least in a poor country like Russiaand his vanity begins to swell out like his tyres. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)
“A poor persons youth, like moonlight in winter, is never appreciated.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.
“If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didnt care for them, but because you and I didnt give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.”
—Mother Teresa (b. 1910)