“- Maria: But I don't have another one. When we entered the abbey our worldly clothes were given to the poor.
- Captain von Trapp: What about this one?
- Maria: The poor didn't want this one.”
Julie Andrews - Maria
Christopher Plummer - Captain von Trapp

“There is no shame in being poor! Only in dressing poorly!”
George Hamilton - Bunny Wigglesworth

“- 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

“Rich people and theorists - who are usually rich people - think of poverty in the negative, as the lack of riches - as disease might be called the lack of health.”

Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler

“Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms. It is to be stayed away from, even for purposes of study.”

Robert Greig - Sullivan's Butler