My family were so poor. My mum would clean houses to maybe get me to a ballet class, bless her. — Claudia Jessie Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention. — Mr. T Copy Share Image
My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a family is poor, everyone is poor, and there is huge solidarity. People will take a bullet for you. But when… — Emmanuel Adebayor Copy Share Image
My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the… — Bob Cousy Copy Share Image
My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us… — Akiane Kramarik Copy Share Image
“no family can get on without women to help; that in every family, poor or rich, there are and must be nurses,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
My family were very poor. We never owned a house, in fact, we were lucky if we could afford the rent. So… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
In the US a child born into a poor family will become a poor adult. The american dream is just that -… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
My family was poor. My father was in the police force and was drawing a small salary. Because of that I could… — Rakhi Sawant Copy Share Image
I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies,… — Noel Wells Copy Share Image
My family was very poor. Strangely, though, my father was an enigma in that he was always working. He was not a… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play… — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was… — Anna Nicole Smith Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy I sold newspapers by the side of the road. I cleaned the shoes of people for… — Kolo Toure Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so… — John Woo Copy Share Image
If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
My dad's side of the family was very poor while growing up, but my dadi raised three kids, got my dad through… — Amyra Dastur Copy Share Image
My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life… — Anne Heche Copy Share Image
I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was… — Anna Nicole Smith Copy Share Image
