Father Quote by Barry Trotz

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

— Irwin Thomas

My dad was an auto mechanic, but we moved to Fort Worth, where he worked in defense, building B-24s.

— Roy Orbison

My father, Beric, ran a joinery business and owned two factories.

— Toyah Willcox

My dad, who likes genealogy, knows who was the first guy that came from France in 1655, and the guy settled in Montreal, and…

— Julie Payette

In 1881, my dad's grandparents, who were Norwegian farmers, immigrated to the United States - the same year my great grandfather from Laguna Pueblo…

— Deb Haaland

My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.

— Preston Manning

What people referred me as is the Father of Manitoba.

— Louis Riel

My dad was a coal miner in County Durham.

— Fiona Hill

My father was a manual worker.

— Diane Abbott

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

— Harold Evans

I come from a line of railroad men. My great-grandfather was a surveyor for the Burlington Railroad.

— Bill Moseley

My grandmother was from Guelph, Ont. I grew up playing ice hockey, I'm a massive fan. A great-uncle who was in the early days…

— Don Winslow