Adult life Quote by Patrick Rothfuss

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

— Jay IDK

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being…

— Imogen Cunningham

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that…

— Angus Deaton

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

— Zoe Leonard

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

— Martha Stewart

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

— Robert Reich

I once was poor myself. I worked to get where I am today and I've worked hard to spend $100,000 a year on my…

— Liberace

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

— Jon Jones

If you look at my life, I wasn't just poor; I was rich and poor.

— Roy Choi

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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