Rural Poor People

Famous quotes containing the words rural, poor and/or people:

    Some bring a capon, some a rural cake,
    Some nuts, some apples; some that think they make
    The better cheeses bring ‘em, or else send
    By their ripe daughters, whom they would commend
    This way to husbands, and whose baskets bear
    An emblem of themselves in plum or pear.
    Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    Maria: When we enter the Abbey, our worldly clothes are given to the poor.
    Colonel Von Trapp: What about this one?
    Maria: The poor didn’t want this one.
    Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)

    Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart—and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)