Kyle Walker Quotes

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

My mother really struggled when we were young. She was on food stamps and welfare. Looking back, I know we didn't have a lot, but I never felt I was at a loss for anything.

When you start off broke - and we weren't broke, we were negative broke - you never forget that. You stay appreciative.

I remember back in the days my Mom didn't have enough for Thanksgiving.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives.

My dad always supported me. Sometimes we didn't have anything to eat for breakfast, but if we could eat lunch and dinner, we weren't poor.

My mother and father were lovely parents, always quite hard up, but very hard-working.

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

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

I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

I grew up beyond proud - we didn't have much, but we had a lot of love.

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.

In prosperity remember adversity.

... avaricious to a most infamous degree; needy at the same time, having a numerous family to provide for

When I was growing up, we didn't have much money. What was important in my house was to have food on the table, be happy, and have our family.

Everyone loved my father. He was so nice that people took advantage of him. We were lower middle class. I slept in the hallway on a cot that rolled away during the day, and my younger brother and sister slept in my parents' room. My goal as a kid was to someday have my own room and to own a car - and I wanted to be able to take care of my parents.

My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.