Family Quote by Jimmy Barnes

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 parents came from very humble families. My grandfather had a construction business coming from farmland, and my grandmother could never read or write.…

— Maria Cornejo

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

My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like,…

— Jessica St. Clair

My family were really poor.

— Joe Gilgun

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

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

— Sam Sheppard

We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth.

— Johnny Flynn

I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family.…

— Luis Negron

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

Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my…

— Mahershala Ali

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing…

— George J. Mitchell