Growing Up Poor Quotes

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

I grew up in Chillum Heights in the Washington, D.C. area., and it was never a garden spot. When guys go, 'Hey, when I grew up, my neighborhood was tough, and it was this and that'... the reality is that it was just a terribly sad place. And thank God, I was able to escape it.

I was a kid growing up in Houston, didn't have a lot - three younger brothers, a single mom. It was tough.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices.

Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

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

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

I'm an only child and grew up in a bad neighborhood. My parents weren't well-off, but they would save up to get me video games. Games were something I did because I couldn't really go outside where bad things were going on.

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.

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.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

I had to let go of many things because we did not have much money growing up. Like joining the Film Institute in Pune or learning the piano.

I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.

As a kid, I really wanted to have my own show. But when you grow up in poverty, people tell you nothing is possible. So I kind of gave up on that dream.

Growing up, I didn't know anything about money other than we didn't have any.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.