Boys Quote by Jeffrey Donovan

My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life.

— Michael Tubbs

My parents got divorced when I was five. My father left for a time, and my mother had to go on welfare. She worked…

— Neera Tanden

My father worked three jobs, my mother worked two, seven days a week sometimes. And they wouldn't take welfare or social assistance, they were…

— Bill Duke

We were a single-parent household for a while. It was just my mom, me, and my brother. We were on welfare for about a…

— Tony Gonzalez

I was a poor kid, and my mom was a single mother of three.

— Kelly Clarkson

My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't…

— Benjamin Carson

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I became married at a young age and had two daughters and divorced at 26. I had to go on welfare to make ends…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

My mom raised six kids on her own.

— DeMarcus Cousins

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a…

— Larry Ellison

My dad's side of the family was very poor while growing up, but my dadi raised three kids, got my dad through medical school,…

— Amyra Dastur

I've chosen never to go on welfare. I feel as though it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my…

— Nadya Suleman