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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

I was one of the poorest people in America.

— Tom Noddy

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more…

— Keith Ferrazzi

We didn't know we were poor because that's how everyone around us lived.

— Eric Adams

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

It wasn't poverty that drove me on.

— Aleksandr Kuprin

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…

— Bernard Hill

Everyone was poor. We were satisfied with a life that was simple and humble. We were a peaceful, open people.

— Nadia Murad

I grew up poor.

— Jessica Chastain

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

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