Dhanush Quotes

I grew up poor.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

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

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I didn't have money growing up.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.