Dennis Skinner Quotes

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

I was one of six kids in a single-parent household.

I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

I was raised in a lower-income family, and we were wild.

I grew up in the projects with four older brothers.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

I grew up in a family with five kids.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.

I grew up as one of six kids.

Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.