Better life Quote by Aasif Mandvi

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal…

— Aneurin Barnard

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant…

— John Knowles

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

— J. C. Chandor

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

— Tom Jones

We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of…

— Quentin Bryce

My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

— Francisco Costa

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

— Nat Hentoff

We've always been inspired by England; my father's first store was here.

— David Lauren

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening…

— Brian Blessed

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

— Lee Child

I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in…

— Gail Bradbrook