Cuba Quote by Andy Garcia

My grandfather was a wealthy and respected merchant in Montclair, New Jersey, where I was born. But his estate was wiped out in the…

— John C. Bogle

My family were wheeler-dealer class. They were their own bosses and very glamorous. We lived in a beautiful, big townhouse in Arklow, in Ireland,…

— Roisin Murphy

My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but…

— Julia Child

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work…

— Clarence Thomas

My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big…

— Brian Dennehy

My father was rich and renowned, and later - as I got to know him, went on vacations with him, and then lived with…

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They…

— Marco Rubio

My father did lots of things. He had an orange-juice factory. He did real estate. He did commercial selling. He was always up and…

— John Torode

My father, Anthony, was a textile agent who sold fabric in the West End and was away a lot. He was very glamorous. When…

— Lisa Jewell

My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.

— Paige Butcher

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

— Jimmy Iovine

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

— Charles Kimbrough