Pastoral Resources

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.

I've always enjoyed poor health.

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.