Roger Daltrey Quotes

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

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood, so there was always a sense of struggle, but we had hope.

I grew up poor. The fact that I had to struggle to succeed, that wasn't a big deal to me. I'd struggled my whole life.

I was in the heart and soul of Baltimore. I definitely felt a connection to the people. They're really hard-working people that want to have a better life. And I saw the struggle that exists there.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I came up from a difficult background.

We were very poor and my family lost everything during the war - our home and our identity. But I'm a believer in luck and think the social conditions you're born into provide the opportunity for you to prove your luck. And I suppose I've been lucky.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

When you grow up on the other side of the tracks, you're used to taking a few bumps.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, so all of my choices are made on my own.

From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation.

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.

Every step of the way, life was hard. I was supposed to be a statistic.

I think life is very, very, very hard, and I've never had anything come super easy to me, no matter what people may think.

I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.