Ram Nath Kovind Quotes

I grew up in Gladstone, Alabama, on a dirt road, with an outside bathroom.

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.

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 grew up during the war years in a tiny cottage with no electricity. Water for washing was pumped from a pond. My brother and I had to fetch drinking water from a tap at the end of the lane, and light was from candles, paraffin lamps, and our nightly log fire.

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.

We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.

I was definitely very much a country boy.

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

I can't wait to get back to the ranch and go back to easy living.

Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons.

I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.

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 grew up in a really small town.

We did not had enough facilities in the village. My family was also not well off. There was no mat, no gym; we used to wrestle in the mud. It was very different from the national camps where I trained before the Commonwealth Games.

I grew up in a house made out of mud.

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

I'm from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and where the cattle population exceeds the human population.

Because I'm in the media quite a lot now, everyone assumes that everything is fine. People forget I sleep on a mattress on the floor with my son in a house I share with five other people.

We were poor and lived modestly, but we always had food on the table.

I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

I grew up with very little. I remember vividly using buckets of water to shower.