Ian Gillan Quotes

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community.

You can't kid the public. When they see me they see I'm just a kid off a council estate - no more, no less.

As a child, I have seen what poverty is, and I try, to the best of my limits, to ensure that no kid should be deprived of his ambitions.

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my father worked.

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

When you grow up in poverty and learn how to survive it, it's something that stays with you forever.

I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.

I know what it's like to be on public assistance and to be unemployed. And I know what it's like to be evicted.

I think if a youngster leaves school unable to read you're kind of condemning them to a life of poverty and a life of lack of potential.

I was an industry kid but was never brought up like one.

My dad was working in the street and my mum was working every day as a cleaner. My life was like that.

I grew up in Plaza East public housing in the Western Addition, five of us living on $900 per month. 'Recycling' meant drinking out of old mayonnaise jars.

I was born to a single mother and often struggled to find my next meal. With the right opportunities from public education and mentors, I achieved the American dream.

My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.

I started playing football in Abidjan, my African town, without even having shoes on my feet.

I grew up poor. The fact that I had to struggle to succeed, that wasn't a big deal to me. I'd struggled my whole life.

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.

When I grew up, I was living on a council estate overlooking a car park for a good 16 years of my life.

People who are denied access to power are also denied the opportunity to make or influence decisions to live a better life out of poverty and claim their rights.

I grew up on a council estate when I was younger.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.