Grow up Quote by Griff

“Being born into a prosperous middle-class family typically endows you with a safety net for life. If you are not naturally very bright, you…

— Owen Jones

While managing a career and family leaves, some parents feeling guilty and frazzled; others seem to be able to effortlessly balance parenthood with full-time…

— Amy Morin

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get…

— Hilary Swank

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged…

— Denise Mina

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

Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across…

— Angela Duckworth

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced and my…

— Kyrsten Sinema

I grew up in a lower-middle-class environment, usually the lone minority among my classmates.

— Reggie Fils-Aime

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper…

— Joel Kinnaman

Far too often, jobs and opportunities seem out of reach for young adults, especially in underserved, minority and low-income communities.

— Kevin Faulconer

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the…

— Lindsay Fox

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and…

— Martin Jacques