Steve Kazee Quotes

I come from nothing. Growing up I didn't really have too much, and I can tap into that anytime that I want to and just remember how bad things were for me growing up and just knowing that I never want to go back there and I don't want my kids to go through it.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

You don't forget where you came from. I came from nothing. I was in Marseille in a bad area. We didn't have anything. We were rich in love.

We didn't grow up rich people.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I come from a poor family.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

I come from nothing. I come from sleeping in the kitchen with my family with the oven open to keep us warm during winter, you know? When you come from that background, all this extra stuff is just... extra stuff, you know?

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

I didn't have money growing up.

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.

I know what it's like to be on public assistance and to be unemployed. And I know what it's like to be evicted.

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

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were.

My late father used to say that they started out without two nickles to rub together and lived in that little house in Everroad Park West.

We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.