Sonu Sood Quotes

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

I know what hard times are like. I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. I've had struggles.

I think I'm just like a lot of people who had nothing.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

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?

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

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

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

They had been brought up in the School of Hard Knocks.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

I lived for two years with six girls in an apartment that was built for three people, and it had no heat. We would sleep in our coats and in sleeping bags. And it was great.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

When I joined 'Essence,' I was a young, single mother. I was 24. I hadn't gone to college. I wasn't making any money at 'Essence' - what was it, $500 a month - and I was struggling. So I was always looking down the road, always hoping for a better, you know, tomorrow.