Juvenal Quotes

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.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

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

My family has been poor and working-class for generations. And we live - I live in this really small community in Southern Mississippi where you don't evacuate, and you have never evacuated because there are too many people in your family to evacuate.

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

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.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

We had poverty in our house. Even on the council estate I knew I was one of the poorer kids. I used to go round my friends houses on a Sunday to get their Sunday dinner because my mum couldn't cook either so I used to love going round my mates and say: 'Can you ask your Mum if I can come in for Sunday dinner?'

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

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

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

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

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.

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

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.