My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher…

My father was a veteran. He fought in World War II. He was a patriot. On the other hand, he had no illusions whatsoever…

— John Edgar Wideman

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social…

— Charles Kuralt

I came from a middle-class family. My father was a professor in a medical college, and my mother was a schoolteacher. We led a…

— Sudha Murty

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher.

— Kangna Ranaut

My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times, I traveled…

— Edmund Hillary

My mother was a schoolteacher and very, very encouraging. She understood what it meant when I said I wanted to be a writer; both…

— Derek Walcott

“But experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring…

— Sonia Sotomayor

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most…

— Dawn French

Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Maria did teach us a lot. It taught us to value what we have: our friends, our neighbors, and those who helped us. I…

— Ozuna

“Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, "How did you learn all this, Isaac?" "From you, Pappa", I said.…

— Isaac Asimov

We're taught to value ourselves not by the good we do but by the shoes we wear.

— Laurel Mellin

It was my father who taught me to value myself...

— Dawn French

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to…

— Andrew Luck

My parents were teachers and they taught me about the value of money.

— Gethin Jones