Poor Relief

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or relief:

“Just as it cannot rain for an entire year, so one cannot remain poor all one’s life.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in San Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.”
—Merle Colby, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)