My father worked very hard and he never missed a day of…

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves…

— Anonymous

My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the…

— Diana Ross

I'm not the most vocal guy, but I try to lead by example every single day with how I work.

— Brandon Ingram

I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.

— Karen Hughes

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do…

— Anita Baker

“When everyone is poor you don't know you're poor. My father worked so some of the boys thought I was actually rich.”

— Stan Grant

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher.…

— Lewis Black

My father worked in a factory and as a child it felt very secure. It felt very secure because everybody had work, the schools…

— Ken Loach

My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've…

— Don Cornelius

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear…

— Ivanka Trump

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and…

— Giles Foden

“My father worked behind closed doors inside the house, had a huge ancient Latin dictionary on a wrought-iron stand, spoke Spanish on the phone,…

— Alice Sebold

My father worked three jobs, my mother worked two, seven days a week sometimes. And they wouldn't take welfare or social assistance, they were…

— Bill Duke

My father worked for more than four decades in politics, in Indian democracy, and it took us 20 years to build a house for ourselves.

— Mehbooba Mufti

The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.

— Asma Jahangir