Quotes tagged ‘poor’

“Cartman: Too bad drinking Scotch isn't a paying job, or else Kenny's dad would be a millionaire. Kenny: [oblivious to Cartman's statement] Cartman: I said your dad would be a millionaire, get it?!?! Kenny: [oblivious] Cartman: exasperated Kenny! Your family's poor, Kenny! Your family's poor! I don't…”

— Philip Stark, Matt Stone, Eric Cartman, Trey Parker, imdb.com

“Malcolm Murray: You have the soul of a poet, sir. Victor Frankenstein: And the bank account to match.”

— John Logan, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Harry Treadaway, imdb.com

“Nowadays being anonymous is worse than being poor. Fame is the most important thing in our culture now. And if there is one thing I’ve learned it is that no one is just going to hand it to you.”

— Ian Brennan, Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Rachel Berry, Lea Michele, imdb.com

“That poor, blind fool. He don't know it but he's headed right for Heartbreak Alley.”

— James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum, Barney Fife, Don Knotts, imdb.com

“If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I sha…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“Capitalism: God’s way of determining who is smart and who is poor.”

— Alan Yang, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com

“Well, he’s a pediatrician, so you know he likes kids. Or feet?...No, no, kids. He has a bill from a divorce lawyer, so you know he’s single. And he has a golf magazine, so you know he’s not gay or poor.”

— Robert Carlock, Jenna Maroney, Jane Krakowski, imdb.com

“"But there is another essential ingredient of success, and that ingredient is luck – absolute and total luck. When were you born? Who were your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earned these things. They were given to us. When we strip away our luck and privilege and consider where we'd be…”

— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu

“Some people are so poor, all they have is money.”

— Norm Kelly, twitter.com

“She called me ugly, so I told her how much money I make...then she called me ugly and poor.”

— Prince-Of-Wolves, reddit.com

“I couldn’t wait to go to work so I could eat. It’s sad to feel that way.”

— Cardi B, vibe.com

“When you're poor, only way to make money is to steal it or scam it.”

— Nancy Pimental, Phillip 'Lip' Gallagher, Jeremy Allen White, imdb.com

“When one is always in respectable company and among reasonably well-to-do citizens, one may perhaps not notice it so much—but when, like me, one has been through very hard times, then it’s impossible to ignore the fact that great hardship is a factor that weighs in the balance.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com

“Our Congress passes laws that subsidize corporations, farms, oil companies, airlines, and houses for suburbia, but when they turn their attention to the poor they suddenly become concerned about balancing the budget and cut back on funds for Head Start.”

— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org

“I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' — that's my slogan.”

— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org

“Porn stars are poorer than we think. When is the last time you saw one able to even afford a pizza?”

— corinofarch, reddit.com

“The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left.”

— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com

“Everywhere the proletariat develops in step with the bourgeoisie. In proportion, as the bourgeoisie grows in wealth, the proletariat grows in numbers.”

— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com

“That the mutual affection of the people concerned should be the one paramount reason for marriage, outweighing everything else, was and always had been absolutely unheard of in the practice of the ruling classes; that sort of thing only happened in romance – or among the oppressed classes, which did…”

— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com

“There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today.”

— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com