Chris Rock Quotes

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.

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

I was very poor when I was young.

I was poor my whole life.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

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

In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.

We used to wash our hair in buckets and survive on toasted sandwiches, chocolates and soup.

I come from a poor family.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

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

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

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 grew up in a family struggling for work.

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 used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.