Difficult Past Quotes

I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.

I've tasted the dirt side. I've tasted being broke. I've been in the dumps, I've lived in motels as a kid. I want a different opportunity for my children. I never want them to see those things.

What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.

I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.

My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.

No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.

A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it's painful. With every anecdote, it's painful because you're summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it's painful because I didn't realize at the time how hard it was for them.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

Well, I had the most appalling childhood.

I had a bit of a strange childhood, to be honest.

When the war started, we became refugees, and it was a really tough time. I was six years old. These were really hard times. I remember them vividly, but it's not something you want to remember or think about.

My childhood was never great. We moved from place to place a lot. There were times when we had no definite place to stay. So, a basic level of security was not always there. Therefore, when you finally make it out, and you become who I am, you're humbled by the memories of those situations.

I didn't have a happy childhood.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I grew up with nothing - I remember sometimes not having shoes.

My childhood was extreme.

I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.

My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

I don't really have childhood-type memories. I had to grow up very young.

My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.