Poverty quotes

Luke. Chapter 3, verse 10. "What then must we do?" Tolstoy asked the same question. He wrote a book with that title. He got so upset about the poverty in Moscow that he went one night into the poorest section and just gave away all his money. You could do that now. Five American dollars would be a fortune to one of these people.

Linda Hunt - Billy Kwan

“The three best friends the poor people have ever had are Jesus Christ, Sears & Roebuck and Earl K. Long.”
Paul Newman - Gov. Earl K. Long

“I'm so broke I'm in two halves.”
Cary Grant - Ernie Mott

“Danny, you've nothin' in common with her. She's a rich bitch; you're just a poor bastard.”
Maclean Stewart - Mickey

“- Gary Glass: What are you wearing?
- Roberta Glass: A jacket. It used to belong to Jimi Hendrix.
- Gary Glass: You bought a used jacket? What are we, poor?”
Mark Blum - Gary Glass
Rosanna Arquette - Roberta Glass

“If this is one of the richest countries in the world, why is it so many of us can barely afford living here?”

Kevin Costner - Bud Johnson

“There is nothing wrong with poor people. I get elected by poor people.”

Candice Bergen - Mayor Kate Hennings

“Don't take a sentimental attitude toward the poor. The poor are the poor. One is sorry for them, but there it is.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Henry Wilcox

“I don't want to be poor. I don't want to be boring. I don't want to be alone. Help me, fairy godmother, please!”

Ally Sheedy - Jessie Montgomery

“In my foster house, we were so poor, we used to lick stamps for dinner.”
Chris Rock - Jake Hayes

“- Teresa Delgado: I'll pay you tomorrow.
- Manuel - the Grocer: Next time you come. Poor don't cheat one another. We're all poor together.”
Margaret Landry - Teresa Delgado
Charles Lung - Manuel - the Grocer

“I'm flat broke, I'm crazy about a man that I will probably never see again.”
Melanie Griffith - Tess McGill

“- Tec: Man where'd u learn that?
- B-rad: Grand Theft Auto 3.
- Tec: Word? Can I borrow it?
- B-rad: U got playstation 2?
- Tec: No, man, I got gamecast.
- B-rad: Gamecast? Well there's Gamecube, and Dreamcast..
- Tec: Man I said I got gamecast! I cant afford that stuff.”
Damien Dante Wayans - Tec
Jamie Kennedy - Brad 'B-Rad' Gluckman

“If you escape, action: l lose my job; reaction: l have a family that l will not be able to provide for! Now, knowing this information, can you tell me why you would possibly want to escape and jeopardize my family?”

Gary Leonard Oldman - Milton Glenn

“- Lickboot: Just pray the police find her, or we're doomed to return to the ranks of the peasantry. And you'd better hope this rumor that dashing Daddy Starling may have survived the avalanche is just a rumor, or we'll be worse than ordinary. We'll be...
- Aunt Pristine Figg: Don't say it!
- Lickboot: Poor.”

Tony Jay - Lickboot
Charlotte Rae - Aunt Pristine Figg

“- Marty: Come on, Griswold, You think that sign is there to hold the table down?
- Clark Griswold: What can I do with five dollars?
- Marty: Gee, I don't know. Buy a bullet and rent a gun?”

Wallace Shawn - Marty
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“- Miss Matilda Crawley: Tell me there's something disreputable in your past.
- Becky Sharp: My father was an artist.
- Miss Matilda Crawley: A starving one I hope.
- Becky Sharp: Absolutely ravenous.”
Dame Eileen Atkins - Miss Matilda Crawley
Reese Witherspoon - Becky Sharp

“- Diego Rivera: I'm here to ask you to marry me.
- Frida Kahlo: I don't need rescuing, Diego.
- Diego Rivera: I do.
- Frida Kahlo: I've lost the toes of one foot. My back is useless, I have an infection of the kidneys. I smoke, I drink, I curse. I can't have children. I have no money and a stack of hospital bills. Shall I keep going?
- Diego...” (continue)(continue reading)
Alfred Molina - Diego Rivera
Salma Hayek - Frida Kahlo

“- Daniel: You're not broke, are you Uncle Joe?
- Uncle Joe: I'm richer than shit.”
Michael J. Fox - Daniel
Kirk Douglas - Uncle Joe

- Kermit the Frog: We were wondering if you could recommend a nice hotel. Actually, a cheap hotel.
- British Gentleman: How cheap?
- Fozzie Bear: Free.
- British Gentleman: Well, that narrows the field a bit. Let's see. "Places where you can park your carcasses". Bus terminals... river banks... The Happiness Hotel...

Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog
Robert Morley - British Gentleman
Frank Oz - Fozzie Bear

“- General Aleksandr Kodoroff: Fuckin' refugees. Azerbaijani, Georgians, Kazakhstani...
- Vlado Mirich: Well, don't curse them.
- General Aleksandr Kodoroff: I don't care whose bitch gave birth to them. Muslim, Serb. I don't hate them for who they are, I hate them because they are poor.”
Aleksandr Baluev - General Aleksandr Kodoroff
Rene Medvesek - Vlado Mirich

“- Catherine Langford: Translation: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Interested?
- Dr. Daniel Jackson: I-I'm gonna go now.
- Catherine Langford: Go where? I mean, you've just been evicted out of your apartment, your grants have run out: everything you own are in those two bags. You wanna prove that your theories are right? This is your chance.”
Viveca Lindfors - Catherine Langford
James Spader - Dr. Daniel Jackson

“My son is dying and I'm broke. If I don't qualify for Medicare, who the hell does?”
Denzel Washington - John Quincy Archibald

“Ghettos are the same all over the world. They stink.”
Jim Kelly - Williams

“How can you be so stupid? How can you be so cruel? Just because I'm poor and plain, I'm not without feelings.”

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Jane Eyre