After Quote by Jacques Pepin

It is a sad truth that apprenticeships fell out of favour in Britain in the Seventies and Eighties, when the manufacturing industries shed jobs…

— Fiona Barton

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

— Christopher Reeve

Well, you know... I grew up in postwar Britain, when you were lucky to get anything to eat. People in America have absolutely no…

— Tim Curry

For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in…

— Alton Brown

I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions of armed conflict. Until 1953 we…

— Eric Burdon

Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens…

— Mary Quant

I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.

— Art Malik

Every day should be Labor Day. We have to fight for the basic proposition that apprenticeship is a wonderful ticket to the middle class.…

— Thomas Perez

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring…

— Robin Leach

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.

— David Hockney

People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved…

— Daley Thompson

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