Tony Rock Quotes

I was a very happy kid. I didn't get new bikes very often. We ate a lot of chicken legs for dinner. But I never felt in want of anything. I wasn't cognizant until much later of the discrepancy between what we had and what other people had.

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

I never felt poverty as a child as we never knew anything else.

Let's just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I've lived in the same house for the past 30 years.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.

What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.

I have no regrets about being poor.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.

Poverty diminishes confidence. So if someone offers you a grain store, even if you really need a plough, you take what is offered to you.

I didn't have money growing up.

The greatest thing I could say about my son, and this is what you always worry about with your kids, that they kinda outgrow their Mom and Dad. But for him, when I see him, when he calls me Dad, and he can still hug me, he's still like my little boy. Even around his friends, he still calls me Dad.

There ain't nobody who's got enough money to put my back in the ring.

I will always think about uplifting the lives of the poor because I know what they feel. I have not heard about poverty; I have not read about poverty: I have experienced poverty.

My family never took vacations growing up. It just wasn't a thing.

I was poor my whole life.

People get out ahead of themselves in debt with spending on all of their desires. But if you learn to live pretty simply and well, well under your means, you feel incredibly, incredibly rich, and that frees you up and gives you the option to start something new, to leave the job you're not excited about, where there might be a glass ceiling on you.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

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

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

I come from a humble background, where my family was struggling to be called middle class.

My family's challenges meant we lived hand to mouth. There were weeks when we had neither electricity nor heating.