Chuck Close Quotes

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

I come from a very working-class background.

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

I come from a very working-class background.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

The ‘poor white’ is actually degraded; the mountain white is a person not yet graded up.

I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.

I wasn't exactly born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

My dad was born with no money.

The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing it's very, very hard.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

Being poor doesn't mean being ordinary.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.