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I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from. — Trey Songz

For poor parents trapped in dangerous and underperforming urban school systems, it is pretty clear that school choice works. — Arthur Brooks

We grew up poor, very poor, but I am very proud of where I come from. — Pedro Martinez

To be successful one must be willing to learn and apply new concepts and not be afraid of change. — Craig R. Barrett

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids. — Chely Wright

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor. — L. Todd Rose

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman — Molly Ivins

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment. — Anthony Jeselnik

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. — Wendi Deng Murdoch

Once government got a taste of money, the appetite grew. — Robert T. Kiyosaki

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing. — Mila Kunis

Dr. Buford's profession was medicine and his obsession was anything that grew in the ground, so he stayed poor. — Harper Lee

I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education. — Peter Criss

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. — August Strindberg

I just love cars; I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get. — Birdman

I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food — Sandra Cisneros

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights. — Art Linkletter

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem. — John Catsimatidis

This relationship is going to be built on trust. — Marla Maples

I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich, but because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me. — Mike Huckabee

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. — Emily Dickinson

I grew up very poor, so I learned how to stretch a dollar. It's nice to combine high-end with low-end or whatever-end you want. — Azita Ghanizada

I found that old Solomon proved it fair,
That a big-belly'd bottle's a cure for all care. — Robert Burns

As he grew, the other children grew as well - all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig — David Eddings

I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home. — Gregory Meeks

Besides, he grew up in the city of the poor. You know as well as I do that in this country Marxism is a religious passion of the middle class. — Mark Helprin

I grew up poor, but I didn't have poor dreams — Magic Johnson

We grew up poor but they made sacrifices for me. I had to make sacrifices for them. My life was the biggest sacrifice. — Karina Halle

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within. — Emile M. Cioran

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads. — Tina Turner

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama. — John Lewis

Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline. — Tyler Hamilton

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going. — J.B. Priestley

Spring is the sacred soul of fertility. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I pretend I'm not hurt, I walk about the world like I'm having fun. — Lana Del Rey

If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight. — Tom Flynn

In my dreams I ran paths walled with high hedges. Always the leaves brushing me like laughter. Always the long night. — M. Pierce

I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year. — Robert Reich

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

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. — Hugo Chavez