My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My parents, who were split up, were so good at keeping my environment strong and keeping everything around me not focused on the fact that we were poor. They got me culture. They took me to museums. They showed art to me. They read to me. And my mother drove two hours a day to take me to University Elementary School.
My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.
My parents were born in 1906 and 1907. I think the experience of the Depression greatly influenced the way they thought about the world.
I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.
A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.
My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
My parents had a great work ethic.
My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
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