City Quote by Alex Padilla

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 in a tyre factory. My mother worked as a teacher.

— Paul Polman

[My mother] worked at thrift stores and she didn't have a high school education. She sacrificed everything she had for me and my brothers.…

— Cory Hardrict

No one would call me a great cook, but over years of cooking, for me, confidence has replaced ambition.

— Tom Junod

People say they don't have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have found an extra two hours a day for…

— Michael Pollan

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“My education, my father liked to point out, was wider than it was deep.”

— Karen Joy Fowler

I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school…

— Angus Deaton

My mother had a fifth-grade education when my father passed away. I was 12 years old - but my mother took on the task…

— Mark Robinson

From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a…

— Felicity Kendal

My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would…

— Ian Rankin

I come from a humble background. My dad moved to London 45 years ago and worked as a bus conductor whereas my mother worked…

— Raj Kundra

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose…

— Joyce Maynard

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

— Roger Ross Williams

My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a…

— Edward P. Jones