George Foreman Quotes

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

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.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

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

I was very poor when I was young.

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 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.

The typical user of a food bank is not someone that's languishing in poverty: it's someone who has a cash flow problem.

I've lived in poverty.

I've been poor most of my life.

My parents weren't rich at all.

I come from a poor family.

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

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 never felt poverty as a child as we never knew anything else.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

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

I started when I was 39 as a cabinet secretary, and so I feel like I have lived an experience in my life where I can relate to families that struggle, and are scraping by and scrounging.

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.

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

My family were really poor.

I know what it's like to have to put back food at the checkout line because you don't have enough money and those kinds of things.