Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

My family didn't really have newspapers at home or talk about politics - my family are not political. They were too busy getting on with it - working, looking after kids, trying to pay off the mortgage, all that stuff.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

I come from humble beginnings myself.

I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house.

I always try to relate a song to something what is going on, the working man, the times, how life goes.

I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.

I thought everybody had to drink to be in this business.

People opposing dance bars claim that a lot of money is wasted in bars. I want to ask them why not target five star hotels, too, where a lot of money is spent?

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

Not being able to afford many of the basic necessities to survive, I placed all my loans in forbearance, enrolled in food stamps and Medicaid, and took on part-time jobs anywhere I could find them.

People connect to a good bar very personally.

My dad was a supplier to the army and was not a very well-off person.

I come from a working-class family of seven children.

There was years when my father didn't even make a hundred grand - or barely made a hundred grand - and sure, we had a maid, but she only came twice a week. What do you think happened the other five days? You think those dishes washed themselves? You think those clothes got themselves in the hamper?

You learn a lot about human nature in a bar.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

We were not rich by any means. My dad was a plasterer and worked long hours - I hardly ever saw him when I was growing up. He had always gone to work before I woke up, and usually, I would be in bed before he came home.

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so many of the working poor.

Our typical customer is a local guy who needs the money to get by for the week.

I grew up in West Jakarta, in a middle-to-low-class neighbourhood.

Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles and polite political opinions. This is incorrect. If you want to get New England right, just imagine a giant mullet in paint-stained pants and a Red Sox hat being pushed into the back of a cruiser after a bar fight.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.