Environmental Quote by Celeste Ng

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

— Laura Fraser

My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.

— Natasha Trethewey

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor.

— Celeste Ng

My dad was a scientist. More than that: my dad grew up in a tiny terraced house in Swansea, the only child of a…

— David Baddiel

My dad got a job as a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He teaches biology and genetics. My dad has been obsessed with science…

— Constance Wu

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out'…

— Mary Wesley

My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could at University…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

My father worked road construction, and I worked my way through college doing road construction. I was the first male in my family to…

— Bill Hagerty

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

— Gordon Bell

My mom was a beautician in her early days, and then my parents decided that one of them needed to go to school in…

— Julie Sweet

My mom worked as an education director.

— Josh Gondelman