Paul Henderson Quotes

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

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

We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal.

I was a kid growing up in Houston, didn't have a lot - three younger brothers, a single mom. It was tough.

There were times when we couldn't even go to the movies, when I was a kid, because there wasn't enough money.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

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

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

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

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

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.

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

I was very poor when I was young.

When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

Things I didn't have in the past I try to give to kids. I know how it feels not to have things. We were poor, but we had enough food to eat. It was a big family, four kids, and it was not like you could just go and buy something. But we had the essentials, the food.

I was born in South Carolina. On my dad's farm, I didn't have much. I'm just a poor kid who worked in a produce market.

I can't dismiss my roots as a kid growing up during the Great Depression in the ordinary midwestern town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. From the standpoint of money and material possessions, we were barely scraping by.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

Growing up, we really didn't have a lot of money.