Geeta Phogat Quotes

I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

We lived in a farm village, and no one could afford to buy a car or to fly. We were envious. We couldn't afford any toys. I couldn't imagine making a real car.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

I was a Depression kid, growing up in Oklahoma.

My birth mom has certainly not lived a life of means in any stretch of the imagination, nor does she want to.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

Oh, my goodness, when we came to the farm in 1961, I mean, it wouldn't even support one salary.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

I couldn't do it at all. I was never really good at it, but I can't imagine what it can be like as a fortunate person not having to deal with it. I mean, people of all ages, not just my age, 25, 35, all the way down the line.

Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

I was raised really poor and so was my husband.

I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

As a child growing up during the Korean War, I knew poverty. I studied by candlelight.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.