Childhood Quote by Jose Saramago

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks,…

— Arnold Palmer

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do…

— Narendra Modi

I grew up in poverty. I was ashamed of the fact, when we were kids, we'd be at school hungry, our stomachs rumbling so…

— Jimmy Barnes

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

— Vanessa Paradis

We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.…

— Phil Robertson

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

— Benjamin Carson

...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after…

— Sue Sanders

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all…

— Dolly Parton

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

I had a wonderful childhood, looking back on it.

— Charley Boorman

I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we…

— Eric Burdon

Of course I had the parallel of having the early years of my life being spent during apartheid, and then having a lot of…

— St. Lucia