Able Quote by Frederick Sanger

In my early years, my father was away as a soldier in the war. When he came back, work was very difficult to come…

— Trevor Nunn

My mom was on welfare for the first five, six years of my life.

— Michael Tubbs

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

We were working class, but my mother stopped working at the mill when she married my father and he went on to become an…

— Lisa Stansfield

My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children,…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people…

— Peter Welch

It was 1939. There was no money or jobs around. I did my parents a favor and joined the Navy.

— Jason Robards

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

— Martin Bashir

My parents had nothing - just basic wages for all their hard work.

— Phil Taylor

Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father…

— Geoff Capes

My dad supported me by working extra hours and giving me a little bit of extra money. He bought my camper van for me…

— Eddie the Eagle

When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might…

— Bernice King