Rick Scott Quotes

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I was born on the west side of Chicago, and there was quite a bit of poverty. My family and I didn't have exactly the best or the most optimal financial situation in my youth, but we turned out well. My mom always made sure that we got a proper education and that we dedicated ourselves to our work.

My dad was born with no money.

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.

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?

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

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 was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.'

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

I was raised in a lower-income family, and we were wild.

Kids from poor families might be nicer, the might be happier, they might be more polite---but in countless ways, the manner in which they are raised puts them at a disadvantage in the measures that count in contemporary American society.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.

I will never not know where I came from. I can be in the biggest house, the best apartment, winning Tonys and Grammys and whatever, and I will always remember waiting in line for government cheese and bread and having food stamps. I had a tough life, and I will never not know the way I was raised and the place where I was raised.

I came from a poor family in Coney Island. I learned to write by reading the 'Post.' This was my education.

My parents were not professionals. They were products of the Depression.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

I grew up working class in Atlanta.

My parents weren't cultured people.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.