Arrived Quote by James Gray

I was one of the poorest people in America.

— Tom Noddy

The worst thing to be in America and anywhere on the planet is poor.

— Jason Whitlock

When they got here, when they successfully emigrated - and not everybody that came through Ellis Island was accepted. If you were sick you…

— Rush Limbaugh

The Bronx, I remember, was a very poor neighborhood, but that was all that immigrants could afford at that time. Life was tough. I…

— Mildred Dresselhaus

I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York.

— Kristin Davis

Where I grew up, kids were quite bad and people wouldn't really have expected for me to go from there to where I am…

— Michail Antonio

I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America.

— Sofia Vergara

In my first few years of elementary school at the Edison School in Detroit, I did poorly. I remember worrying that I might fail…

— Robert J. Shiller

I was from very poor people: 11 of us in a two-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. I wanted the large houses, the cars, jets, and yacht.

— Neil Sedaka

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house that I realized we…

— Jay-Z

I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'

— Dolly Parton