John Rocha Quotes

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

In Canada, we just have rich and poor, but we don't constantly remind poor people about it.

I grew up in Northern Ireland, in the middle of nowhere, and when you are poor, you are really poor. And when you are rich, you are very rich. This is not a new phenomenon.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.

My kids are being raised in a much more affluent environment than was mine. My wife and I talk about that all the time because neither of us had this kind of experience.

I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

Raise your hand if you have a poor friend?

The level of real income is not what determines whether they are happy or not. It’s their relative place in the pecking order.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

Precariousness is not just a working-class thing.

I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.

I am a normal girl from a humble, middle class family.