Freedom Quote by Ethan Peck

Growing up, we were a poor yet tightknit family. My mother worked multiple jobs and always made sure that her kids never had to…

— Nia Jax

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

— Kirk Douglas

I grew up in poverty as a child, my parents had me when they were very young. They didn't have money growing up.

— Wes Streeting

When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her…

— Patrisse Cullors

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

— Kirk Douglas

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of…

— Stacey Abrams

When you have kids that have no jobs and are not in school, too often they get themselves into trouble. So what we have…

— Bernie Sanders

I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern.…

— Wayne Dyer

It is sad that the world has gotten more of my time than my children, but my children benefit from it through their financial…

— RZA

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…

— Bernard Hill

Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a…

— LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know…

— Alan Ladd