Adam Neumann Quotes

I grew up in an underprivileged home.

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

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

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.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York's East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

We didn't grow up rich people.

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

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

I'm a little kid from St. Louis, Missouri, on the inside.

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.

When we were growing up we only got two pairs of shoes every year. With me, I was lucky because I got three pairs of shoes, the third were basketball shoes: Black Air Force Ones, White Air Force Ones, and boots for the winter.

When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.

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.

Our cellar home had a kitchen and a combination bedroom and half bath, which meant we had a sink next to the bed. We had no refrigerator, no shower or tub, and no privacy. My parents shared the bedroom with my sister and me.

I had a lovely time growing up.

I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.

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 grew up as one of six kids.

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer.

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

My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.