British Quote by Sidney Poitier

My father grew up quite poor actually in a small farming village in South India. His grandfather was a farmer, his father was a…

— Vivek Murthy

My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that…

— Anonymous

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad…

— Brad Pitt

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

A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the…

— Patricia Hampl

My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from more of…

— Chuka Umunna

But my father also supported human rights, freedom and self-determination for all people, including Latino agricultural workers, Native Americans, and the millions of impoverished…

— Martin Luther King III

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

— Roger Ross Williams

My mum was quite poor, and my dad was rich. She didn't dig that, so she left him.

— Kevin Parker

My dad grew up really poor in Mississippi. I paid attention to that because I thought that's a healthier thing to pay attention to…

— Anderson Cooper

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

— George Michael

My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little…

— Roger Allam