Benjamin Clementine Quotes

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

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

My mother was from a middle-class background.

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.

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

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

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

I would say I came from upper 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.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

There are people with no high school education who are poor. but there are also university graduates on food bank lines. There are people who are poor because they have made bad choices, gotten addicted to drugs, burned bridges with friends and family — and then there are people who have never taken a drug in their lives, who have huge social networks, and who still can’t make ends meet.

We were far from rich, but I never remember my parents worrying about money.

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

The only real goal I had was, I wanted to own a car. Because my father, most of the time, he couldn't afford a car. Once in a while he would have a car, but it would be 10 or 15 years old, an old jalopy.

I am a normal girl from a humble, middle class family.

My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.

The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

We didn't grow up rich people.

I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.

My parents came from very humble families. My grandfather had a construction business coming from farmland, and my grandmother could never read or write. We were very spoiled. We had a nice house - and then, all of a sudden, we had nothing.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

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.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'