Jeremy Scott Quotes

I was not born with a golden spoon in my mouth.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

I came from rather humble beginnings.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.

I grew up poor.

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

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

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.

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 was from this small town, and my parents were poor.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

I come from a community plagued with so much poverty and violence and homophobia.

I wasn't a silver-spoon kid on the golf course growing up.

I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side.

It's a mistake to think that there's a difference between someone on the street and someone not on the street.

My dad grew up with straight-up no running water. He slept in a twin bed with his two sisters and his mom, like 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' style: like, feet at the head, feet at the head alternating. And then I think his dad slept on, like, a bed of newspapers on a floor in their apartment.

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to.