Struggling Parents Quotes

I didn't grow up wealthy. We couldn't even afford spaghetti sauce when I was first born, but my mom and dad worked really hard and came from the bottom up.

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.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

I think a lot of people think I was born in a blue suit, on the David Brinkley show. And that isn't me. I am much more that kid who grew up in South St. Louis, in a very modest household, with a simple background with parents who didn't get through high school.

We weren't the most fortunate family growing up.

Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.

I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids.

Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

When the wages of labour are hardly sufficient to maintain two children, a man marries and has five or six.

We were in the position after our sextuplets were born that we could not pay our bills. We did the show to provide a better life for them.