Whose boys are those with the holes in their pants?" I cringed. How would my grandpa answer such an embarrassing question?" Those are my daughter's children, my grandchildren, " Grandpa spoke as if he'd just been asked who had won first place in a foot race or just been baptized into the church." Those pants are very well ironed, " the stranger said. Elizabeth Byler Younts
It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.
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Rick Bragg
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon
[W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to...
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Linda Tirado
A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.
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Victor Hugo
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
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J.k. Rowling
More Quotes By Elizabeth Byler Younts
Whose boys are those with the holes in their pants?" I cringed. How would my grandpa answer such an embarrassing question?" Those are my daughter's children, my grandchildren, " Grandpa spoke as if he'd just been asked who had won first place in a foot...
