Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

We've (shot) very poor percentages and come out with a win. We just need to play harder. We lacked physical, tough play for 40 minutes.

George Moore

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

The poor little thing is so little that we didn't even notice.

Edmund Burke

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies, and quick to make friends.

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Anton Chekhov

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

Walter Mare

Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Augusto Pinochet

I devalued the peso solely looking after the poor.

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

Lisa Jones

We're typically not a poor free-throw shooting team. But we'll practice on that before tomorrow's game.

Jay Wright

We'll just toss it out as a poor shooting night.

Tonight was really unacceptable. It was a poor performance. It wasn't just one or two players.

You have had some very positive results and some quite poor results.

Vanessa Ferlito

I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.

Creighton Abrams

They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.

Oliver Goldsmith

Thou source of all my bliss, and all my woe, / That foundst me poor at first, and keepst me so.

Ron Wilson

We made a poor play on the power play and they took advantage. We could have quit, but we didn't.

Ernie Els

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

He is poor who does not feel content.

I thought he did some tremendous things. I thought he did some poor things. He has a lot of room to grow.

For the record, this is a poor decision.

That was a pretty big 2-iron, especially considering how poor the first two shots were,

Aldo Leopold

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

Dolly Parton

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

Alexander Pope

Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor.

A. J. Liebling

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.