"This has been my baby for two years, " says Faisal, 38, who has built Ruba (he is vague about the source of the name) on his dirt-poor family's trading origins in Pakistan's frontier provinces.
His father died when he was ten, and his family was so poor that he wore ragged hand-me-downs to school, including, when he was six, a dress his older sister had grown out of.
His family was poor, but his parents, Sarah and Andrew Parks, instilled in him the values of hard work and racial pride.
But the senator has not forgotten his abject childhood in Pittsburgh (so poor that his father built the family home from used lumber).
His family was literally dirt poor, sharecropping corn, wine, olive oil and sheep for a landlord who extracted 50% in payment.
At age 14, in 1952, he was getting such poor marks in school that his family urged him to drop out and start a trade.
To be part of the group, a man had to sell all his goods, give the money to the poor, and, like Francis, sever all ties with his family.
Anthony Power was born to a very poor family in Southern Ireland, his son said, and when he first married his wife in 1959 they lived in a caravan as they could not afford a house.
He was an Italian, from dirt-poor Emilia-Romagna, who followed his family to France to find work.
Judge Joaquim Barbosa, who was born into a poor family, has been praised for his judicial independence.
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You decided that no child should be consigned to a life of poor health because of what neighborhood his or her family lives in.
Mr Villar's image is built on his description of himself as a boy from a poor family who worked hard and became a rich businessman.
Born into a poor family in Ardmore, Okla. and reared by his mother and grandmother, Hays came of age in nearby Gainesville, Tex.
According to the court order, Dubey asked for leniency saying that he is a "poor person, unmarried and the sole bread winner of his family".
Born 47 years ago into a poor family that migrated to Istanbul from a province on the Black Sea coast, Mr Erdogan got his street education as a teenager peddling lemonade and simits (sesame buns) in one of Istanbul's roughest districts.
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