Deprivation Quote by George J. Mitchell

My parents have struggled to bring me up well. I didn't feel like I was living affluently, but my parents deprived me of nothing.…

— Aditya Narayan

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a…

— Albert J. Nock

My family was very, very poor. We grew up in an environment that was so nurturing and so caring. Everything around us was beautiful.

— Akiane Kramarik

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

— Bob Cousy

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 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

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for…

— Anonymous

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

— Mr. T

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

Our family was poor, but my parents gave us money for education.

— Takashi Murakami