Wolfgang Puck Quotes

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

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

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

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 didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.

My dad was born with no money.

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

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?

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

I grew up poor.