Robert B. Laughlin Quotes

I don't come from a rich family - it's not like we lived in a cardboard box, but we didn't have a ton of money.

I have no regrets about being poor.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

I came from a background where we didn't have bread. I know what it's like to live with money and no money.

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we needed.

Like everyone, I am formed by my background, and mine was - well, we didn't have a lot of money. I didn't live in a cardboard box, but I did live in a place where, at the end of the week, the money was gone.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

My parents didn't have any money.

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

I don't come from a lot of money.

I didn't have money growing up.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

I've been poor most of my life.

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

I don't come from money.

I wasn't rich.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

When I was a kid, our family was not that rich.

When I started, I had nothing. Because my family was really, really, really poor.