Joe Gilgun Quotes

I was poor my whole life.

I come from a poor family.

I was very poor when I was young.

I've lived in poverty.

I've been poor most of my life.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

The hard part that I had to go through in life, period, is living in poverty and not being able to get what I want.

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

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I grew up in a family struggling for work.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

My parents were always living from pay cheque to pay cheque. They were always struggling.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

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

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

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.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

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

I grew up poor.

My parents didn't have any money.

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

I grew up in a low-income family. I was raised by a single mother.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.