Father Quote by Mildred Dresselhaus

I grew up on the brink of poverty in Baltimore and the Bronx during the '80s and '90s. I remember those streets you couldn't…

— Wes Moore

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

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where a lot of people didn't have work opportunities, but they were good, hard-working people, including…

— Stacy Brown-Philpot

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

— Chely Wright

Our town was not very wealthy, it is a humble place, and my mom and dad didn't have much money. They were always working,…

— Alex Pereira

I grew up in the Bronx.

— Chris Hayes

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

— Josh Radnor

I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher.

— Sunny Hostin

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

— Peter Criss

New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New York - and by…

— Fran Lebowitz

I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a…

— Cara Buono

I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in…

— William Klein