Dirt Quote by Chris Gardner

I grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

— John Lewis

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

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way…

— Jennifer Garner

My mum was incredibly resourceful and there were loads of aunts and uncles around who helped.

— Jay Blades

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody…

— Robert Herjavec

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell…

— Danny DeVito

While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research skills to…

— Stacey Abrams

My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to…

— Stacey Abrams

My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on…

— Debi Mazar

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

— Jessica Chastain

When I say dirt-poor, I mean Mom made maybe $25,000 a year. I remember buying milk with food stamps. Vividly. So, growing up, I…

— Jason Sehorn

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

— Florence Henderson