Philippe Coutinho Quotes

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.

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

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

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.

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

There's something very soothing about the simplicity of doing what's right in front of you: paying the rent, buying groceries, and when there's a little extra for a treat like cinnamon rolls, whoopee! When you live paycheck to paycheck, you only have so much to lose.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

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.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A.

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 know if there was even a hundred million dollars in the whole country!

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?'

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

I wasn't rich.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.