Poor Children Quotes

• The presence of even a single poor child on the street means a million defeats for mankind.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Children, Mean, Defeat

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• I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

  Landon Pearson

  Children, Mean, Skills

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• He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Children, Overcoming, Poor

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• A big hole in a poor child's shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Children, Shoes, Poor

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• Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Children, Men, Toys

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• The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation firstlaid, how much kindnessis unavoidably cast away?

  Laurence Sterne

  Education, Children, Charity

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• If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to bed hungry while I was on earth and read aloud a list of my eBay purchases. I shudder to think of it. Explaining to a poor child with a swollen belly why I didn't give his village fifty cents a week but spent twenty-seven dollars in a bidding war for a Mars Attacks coffee cup.

  Dana Gould

  Children, War, Coffee

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• Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

  River Phoenix

  Children, Kids, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.

  Gwen Ifill

  Children, Kids, Odds

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

  Joyce Cary

  Mother, Children, Poor

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• A poor child who receives high-quality early childhood development is 40 percent less likely to need special education, twice as likely to attend college and dramatically more likely to survive childhood.

  Shakira

  Children, College, Childhood

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• Really poor children in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works. So they literally have no habit of showing up on Monday. They have no habit of staying all day. They have no habit of 'I do this and you give me cash' unless it's illegal.

  Newt Gingrich

  Monday, Children, Poor Neighborhoods

  "Is There Truth In Gingrich's Remarks On The Poor?". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.

  Charles Perrault

  Brother, Children, Littles

  Charles Perrault (2016). “Little Thumb (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Der kleine Däumling (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.2, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats and rat poisons, or a rural world where families do not enjoy the minimal levels of public health accepted as standard for nearly a century. Whether in city or country, this is a world where cavities go unfilled and ear infections threatening permanent deafness go untreated. It is world where even a small child learns to be ashamed of the way he or she lives.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Country, Children, Dangerous World

  Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.

  Charles Bukowski

  Easter, Children, Clever

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.50, City Lights Books

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• We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.

  Cornel West

  Children, People, Priorities

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.

  Eleanor Clift

  Children, Cuba, May

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• When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as well as white, we need to push toward integrated schools.

  Cornel West

  Children, School, Black And White

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Many of us regard ourselves as mildly liberal or centrist politically, voice fairly pleasant sentiments about our poor children, contribute money to send poor kids to summer camp, feel benevolent. We're not nazis; we're nice people. We read sophisticated books. We go to church. We go to synagogue. Meanwhile, we put other people's children into an economic and environmental death zone. We make it hard for them to get out. We strip the place bare of amenities. And we sit back and say to ourselves, "Well, I hope that they don't kill each other off. But if they do, it's not my fault.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Summer, Children, Nice

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• What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits? How much of their creative beauty of spirit would remain unquenched through the years? How much of this responsiveness would follow them through life?

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Children, Years, People

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• Why, what's the matter wi' the poor child?" she demanded of Jamie. "Has she had an accident o' some sort?" "No, it's only she's married me," he said, "though if ye care to call it an accident, ye may.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Children, Care, May

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.331, Dell

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• Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education of poor children of the same, an authority which, being altogether superfluous if the provision is to be the result of pious charity, would be a precedent for giving to religious societies as such a legal agency in carrying into effect a public and civil duty.

  James Madison

  Religious, Children, Agency

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth.
  [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]

  Blaise Pascal

  Dog, Children, Earth

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• Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive their free[dom] . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.

  George Washington

  Children, Writing, Law

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• I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool.

  Julie Garwood

  Children, Giving Up, Greatest Treasure

  Julie Garwood (2012). “Julie Garwood Box Set: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, and a New Excerpt!”, p.439, Simon and Schuster

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