Angela Rayner Quotes

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 grew up poor.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

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

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

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

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

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Money can't buy poverty.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

It's really hard to be poor in New York - I was really poor when I lived in New York.

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.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

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 in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

It’s poverty and hunger that drive these students to the madrasahs.

Most people are poor at some time in their lives. But poverty is no excuse for committing crime.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

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.