Dana Carvey Quotes

I grew up upper middle class.

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.

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.

We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

I grew up in a family with five kids.

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

I came from a middle-class family. My father was a professor in a medical college, and my mother was a schoolteacher. We led a good life but we did not have much money.

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

I grew up in the middle class.

I was well brought up, my parents are still together. I lived in a council estate, but I don't anymore; I saw my parents buy a nice house and move me to a nice area.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

I'm called 'the poorest president', but I don't feel poor.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

For a number of years, I've wondered if people like us are the forgotten. We're not the poor, and we're not the rich. We're not the very young or the aged. We're the average American family.

When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

I'm first-generation money in my family.