Kenny Troutt Quotes

I come from a poor family.

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've been poor most of my life.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I grew up poor.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I was poor my whole life.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

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

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

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

Poor people always lose in struggles.

Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

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.

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

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

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

I was raised in a lower-income family, and we were wild.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.