My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an…

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

— Donald Ray Pollock

My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.

— Stephen Pagliuca

Being the son of a women's shoe factory owner, 'Kinky Boots' resonated with me on so many different levels.

— Kenneth Cole

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire…

— Dominic Chianese

I was one of the only children having an immigrant father in my elementary school.

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

— Dave Van Ronk

My paternal grandfather worked in the mill all his life. My father worked in the mill almost his whole life. I worked in the…

— Ed O'Neill

My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the other side…

— Ali Lohan

My father had a shoe factory in a depressed and rough area of New York City called Williamsburg.

— Kenneth Cole

We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

“To the extent a school is like a factory,”

— Warren Berger

We played an old U-Boat factory in East Germany once and that was massive - 35,000 people.

— Keith Flint

It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think people go out of their way to remain…

— Steve-O

Now, I love a good factory tour. Drop me into a bottling plant, an automotive assembly line, or a jellybean factory, and I'm happy…

— Marc Randolph

My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.

— Bonnie Hammer