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My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula. -- J. C. Watts
We definitely weren't poor growing up, but we weren't rich. -- Matt Kemp
When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention. -- Mr. T
I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house. -- Criss Angel
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted. -- Barbara Kingsolver
When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged. -- Ha-Joon Chang
I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles. -- Edwidge Danticat
My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up. -- Jennifer Garner
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely. -- Marian Keyes
My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that. -- George J. Mitchell
If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt. -- Meghan Daum
Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. -- George Foreman
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women. -- Cate Blanchett
We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else. -- James Green Somerville
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that. -- Dorothy Allison
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement. -- Corey Taylor
I don't want there to be this separation between the rich and poor. I may be part of the three percent because I've been fortunate and done well for myself, but I will never forget about the 97 percent. That was me growing up. I was so poor I dreamt about being just 'regular poor,' not 'poor, poor.' -- Marlon Wayans
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair. -- Maya Angelou
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
Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. -- George Foreman
I was so poor growing up...if I wasn't a boy...I'd have nothing to play with. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Growing up I was so poor I wore coffee cups as shoes. The good part was my feet never fell asleep. -- Jarod Kintz
Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids. -- Mila Kunis
While a few poor countries are catching up with the rich world, the differences between the richest and poorest individuals around the globe are huge and likely growing. -- Zygmunt Bauman
I think that growing up very poor in a very wealthy town gave me a sense of being an outsider, and I hated it when I was growing up. -- Moby

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