Jimmy Hoffa Quotes

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

I come from a lower-middle-class family and used to stay in a housing board colony.

My dad was born with no money.

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

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 was raised in a lower-income family, and we were wild.

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

A little bit about my family: We didn't really come from much, and we didn't take family trips to California, so my first trip to California was actually my first day of school.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

I grew up in a very large, poor family.

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

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

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

Moving to Mumbai was difficult, as survival was a major concern. I was not from a very well-to-do family.