America Quote by Beneil Dariush

My entire family is very academic; my brother's an engineer, my mom's a nurse practitioner, my dad's an accountant.

— Iman Vellani

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they…

— Ruby Bridges

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an…

— Al Pacino

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and…

— Kaley Cuoco

My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them, anywhere.

— Amos Oz

My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history…

— Cary Fukunaga

My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got…

— Tad Devine

My parents and friends, they're Ph.D.s that worked as custodians, that owned their own businesses, that went bankrupt, that moved seven times, that sent…

— Roy Choi

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

— Matt de la Pena

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor,…

— Pete Seeger

My parents, they grew up in a time when there was war in Korea. And my grandmother, her husband, my grandfather, was a soldier…

— Lee Isaac Chung

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