Business Quote by Edith Bowman

I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I…

— Johnny Flynn

When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where my father…

— John Burnside

I grew up in a little fishing village called Anstruther in East Fife in upper Scotland.

— Edith Bowman

I grew up Dalgety Bay, in the Kingdom of Fife, in a 1970s bungalow. We moved there when I was nine and stayed for…

— Stephen Hendry

Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went…

— Kelly Macdonald

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her…

— Michael Smith

My first job was on the end of a pier in the Isle of Wight doing show business.

— Danny John-Jules

I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every…

— Rick Astley

As a family, we were far too busy making mud pies and going to swimming galas, and mum was always working.

— Jonathan Bailey

Dad was a manager at Newport, over on the Isle of Wight. I remember going from Portsmouth on the hovercraft to the Isle of…

— Mason Mount

My mother cleaned hotel rooms and worked in a video store. My father delivered newspapers and washed dishes in restaurants.

— Leana S. Wen

My mother had been a housemaid in a big pub hotel.

— Jean Marsh