Sukarno Quotes

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I come from a very humble background. My father had to work really hard to become an assistant director. For a large part of his youth, he worked in a mill and took up odd jobs to make ends meet. We lived in a small room and could only afford a meal a day.

I didn't have life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.

We weren't the most fortunate family growing up.

I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.

I grew up with pretty much nothing - in the hood, the ghetto - whatever you want to call it.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.

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

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.

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

I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

I grew up poor.

I know what poverty is.

I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.