#poor

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#ever #expensive #extremely #how #knows

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#creature #man #poor #woman

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#cotton #domestic #education #had #leave

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#dead #demands #poorly #speak #tradition

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny. ↗

— Charles Barkley

#come #control #destiny #education #get

There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#been #bring #even #fact #few

Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it. ↗

— Mario Batali

#bank #behave #bum #different #differently

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#because #books #buy #could #dissatisfied

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#does #fact #fine #go #help

When I look back at it, I'm mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap. ↗

— Peter Berg

#back #cheap #david #great #great writer