David Copperfield Quotes

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

My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

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?

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

I thought it was normal to recycle pants and shoes from your older cousins. That was just my way of life. At the end of the month, there was not much food in the refrigerator and you're hoping the first comes so food can come again. You never forget those things.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I was very poor when I was young.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal.

I've lived in poverty.

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

What's happened to society is we've become really pretentious. But there was a time in my life where I really had to choose between boiling potatoes and paying my gas bill, so I'd buy a can of potatoes.

When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re even happy, because at least you’ve got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

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.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.