Pastoral Resources

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else.

Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part of the world.

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Even a poor man can receive honors.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.