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  • People just relate to me. They know I'm a regular person brought up in a hardworking, poor family, that I've had all the struggles that people have. I'm just a friendly person. And I hopefully have a good sense of humor. People get a kick out of my stupidity.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

    George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.104, Regnery Publishing
  • You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn’t determine who you are. You must all realize what you’re worth on your own.

  • I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

    Life   Soccer   Football  
    "ZZ top" by Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2004.
  • I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

    School   Needs   Taught  
  • I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

  • When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

    Mother   Athlete   Guy  
  • I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

    Strong   Father   Men  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.

    Eight   Two   People  
  • If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

    Baby   Pregnancy   Looks  
  • In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

    Book   Autumn   Boys  
    Mark Twain (2016). “The Prince and The Pauper”, p.16, My Ebook Publishing House
  • I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty.I decided that I would not live for myself but would live for others.

    Mother   Children   House  
    "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.
  • I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

    Twitter post from Oct 16, 2010
  • My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are very normal. We have an understanding, I think, that what I do isn't quite down their alley.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.

  • My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.

    Mother   Kids   Night  
  • There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.

    Love   Mother   Pain  
  • I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

    Kids   House   Tree  
    Interview with Ted Koppel, abcnews.go.com. September 16, 2005.
  • I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

  • I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.

    Hard Work   Average   Car  
    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • You go to India and you see the poorest village somewhere in the middle of India. And the poor family is happier than any rich billionaire in this country because of spirituality.

    Country   Village   India  
    Source: www.marieclaire.com
  • My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.

  • My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

    Ghetto   School   College  
    "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.
  • My parents grew up in poor families where little English was spoken, they both went to college and became teachers. They believed that anything was possible with hard work, and they particularly stressed the importance of education. They instilled that same belief in my sister and me.

    "An Interview With Justice Samuel Alito on Immigration, His Mentors and Advice for a Successful Life". Interview with Madaline Donnelly, dailysignal.com. November 09, 2014.
  • Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

    Children   Mean   Parent  
  • It is a tribute to Indian democracy that a person from a poor family, an ordinary family, is today addressing the nation from the Red Fort.

    "India Independence Day 2014: Top Quotes From Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s First Speech At Red Fort" by Suman Varandani, www.ibtimes.com. August 15, 2014.
  • For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

    "J. Michael Straczynski’s Superman: Outsider with a vulnerable heart". Interview with Jevon Phillips, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 5, 2012.
  • I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by our family. There was no safe haven for us. But somehow we always managed to be happy.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent of dependence and interdependence in American life. As long as we pretend that only poor or abnormal families need outside assistance, we will shortchange poor families, overcompensate rich ones, and fail to come up with effective policies for helping families in the middle.

    America   Long   Needs  
    Stephanie Coontz (2016). “The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap”, p.73, Basic Books
  • When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek to avenge their deaths. Black, Hispanic, or poor families who have a loved one murdered not only don't expect the district attorney's office to pursue the death penalty -which, of course, is both costly and time consuming- but are surprised when the case is prosecuted at all.

    Color   Cities   Office  
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