Colum McCann Quotes

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

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

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

I grew up in the middle class.

I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat, and I had my own room. I never was aware of the Great Depression.

I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted.

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

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.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

No doubt, my parents were hardworking, you know, middle class. My father, when my sister and I were younger, he was a parking attendant at the old Dunes Hotel and Casino. My mother was a bookkeeper in a title company.

I don't come from a rich family, but my parents are professionals.

I grew up upper middle class.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

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 would say I came from upper middle class family.

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money... that was my reality.

I'm painfully middle class.

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

I grew up in a very middle-class life. I'm grateful for it - it has given me a lot of stability.

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.

We were definitely not rich, but we were not poor. My mum always came home from work and did everything so that we ate well.