Bobby Bones Quotes

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

Where else can a guy like me make it? Blind and poor---only in America.

I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

What is the deepest passion for me and for us is the historic investment in the middle class and in - as I say often because I was that guy growing up - the dreams of those who look up who want to get into the middle class. That I feel the strongest about.

I never met a poor person who wanted to soak the rich; they want to get rich.

There's no future in being poor.

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

I don't know what I did in this life to deserve all of this. I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.

I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.

I grew up on food stamps. I come from a very humble background. And I've had many friends that have been destitute - you know, running into trouble - and places like The Midnight Mission have given them hope and have fed them and gotten them back on the right path.