“My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.” KnowsKidsParentPoorTeachYoungsters Author:Alan Ladd
“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?” PeopleLittlesTwoWarKidsThreeBitsParentMemoriesPoorWifeThousandLittle BitDiedSoldierZeroEntitledPoor PeopleGround Zero Author:Carl Paladino
“I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.” KidsJobsYoungHousePoorLevelsPovertyGrewGrew UpModest Author:Chely Wright
“I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.” FeelsHomeKidsCoursesParentPoorTeachTeacherSorrySmarterFoolishnessQualifiedSchoolingMisguided Book:Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks Source: Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
“My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.” PeopleLittlesKidsTogetherMotherLeftPoorBoysGrewDadGrew UpFoundationMy DadCubaLittle BoysPoor FamilyHappy Kid Author:William Levy
“I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.” ThinkingCharacterStoriesDreamKidsPoorEmotionConnectionsRegardMidwestBootstraps Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Poor children in Baltimore face even worse odds than low-income kids elsewhere, mostly because they remain in impoverished neighborhoods.” ChildrenKidsFacesPoorLowsIncomeNeighborhoodElsewhereOddsBaltimoreLow IncomePoor Children Author:Gwen Ifill
“There's five factors or characteristics of places where kids from poor backgrounds don't do very well. And those are places that have more economic and racial segregation, places with more income inequality.” WellsKidsPoorFiveEconomicBackgroundsIncomeFactorsInequalityCharacteristicsSegregationIncome InequalityRacial SegregationPoor Background Author:Gwen Ifill
“I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.” PeopleTryingHardDreamKidsAblePoorStreetsAchieveHard WorkPursueYour DreamsPursue Your Dreams Author:Dave Bautista
“A very poor kid came up to me after a talk and said 'I want to go blow up a factory.' I asked how old he was and he said 17. I said 'have you ever had sex?' He said 'no.' I said 'just remember if you get caught you aren't going to have sex for twenty years at least.' That's not saying that one person having sex is worth the salmon. I'm not saying it's a reason not to act, I'm saying don't be stupid.” IfsWantYearsPersonsSaidReasonKidsRememberSexPoorStupidTwentiesCaughtBlowFactoriesHaving SexSalmonThat One Person Author:Derrick Jensen
“The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved ones, your husband, your wife - boyfriend or girlfriend. If you have kids - balancing that, balancing your work with the time you spend with your kids. The idea of wanting to be a good parent and then the motivation to be a great parent. Whether you're black, white, any color. Rich, poor, regardless of religion, cousins of culture, we go through those. We have the same challenges.” IfsTryingIdeasKidsTodayFacesMotivationCultureParentBlackChallengesWhitePoorRichWifeColorBalanceHusbandGirlfriendLoved OnesCousinFamily LoveYour HusbandBlack WhiteGood ParentRich PoorGreat ParentsWork Family Author:Dwayne Johnson
“Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy.” CareKidsPoorPovertySickHealth CareCounterparts Author:Anna Quindlen
“We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that. We started with a humble log house, milk cow, garden-raised our own food, killed a hog every year in the fall, and had the meat hanging up in the smokehouse - that was our childhood, me and ol' Si.” YearsRunningKidsFallHouseWaterPoorChildhoodGardenHotOur ChildrenRaisedHumbleMeatMilkCowsHogHot WaterBathtubsRunning Water Author:Phil Robertson
“I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.” ThinkingKnowsHandsKidsPoorGrewPaperClothesGrew UpCanadaTorontoForgedSecond HandNew ClothesSecond Hand Clothes Author:Paulo Costanzo
“You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.” KnowsKidsPoorBunchOur Family Author:Kenny Rogers