Accounts Quote by George Bernard Shaw

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

— Clarence Thomas

My father was, in fact, illiterate.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

— Dolly Parton

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

— Gordon Bell

My father had very little formal education.

— Daniel Berrigan

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

— Umberto Eco

My father, he couldn't read or write.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the…

— John Steinbeck

My father was prolific when it came to writing: day-timers, journals. He wrote on pieces of loose-leaf paper that he held on to, and…

— Shannon Lee

My father and mother do not know literacy. I cannot go to school due to financial difficulties. I started to working at a butcher…

— Salt Bae

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.

— Barry Hannah

My father's side of the family was very active in education.

— Sal Khan