Jon Bon Jovi Quotes

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

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

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 understand the pain of working-class Americans because I have experienced the pain.

I come from a working class family. We barely had anything.

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

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.

Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.

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

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

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

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

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.

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

I come from a poor family.

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

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

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

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

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.

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

I don't come from money.

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