Attention Quote by Anderson Cooper

A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the…

— Patricia Hampl

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

— Sidney Poitier

What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time…

— Pinetop Perkins

I guess we were kinda poor when we were kids, but we didn't know it. That's because my dad always refused to let us…

— Frankie Boyle

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad…

— Brad Pitt

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

— Mr. T

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

— Dickey Betts

My family was very poor. Strangely, though, my father was an enigma in that he was always working. He was not a ne'er-do-well. He…

— Rodney Crowell

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

— Larry Elder

My grandfather was a wealthy and respected merchant in Montclair, New Jersey, where I was born. But his estate was wiped out in the…

— John C. Bogle

My father grew up quite poor actually in a small farming village in South India. His grandfather was a farmer, his father was a…

— Vivek Murthy

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at…

— Frank Ocean