Father Quote by Jeff Merkley

My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber.…

— Ralph Stanley

Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,…

— Katherine Dunn

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of…

— Karl Marlantes

I spent a lot of time growing up in Oregon after I left California. Spent a lot of time in the woods.

— Sam Elliott

My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in…

— Johnny Cash

I'm originally from Hobbs, New Mexico but moved around a lot growing up. My family had a ranch 40 miles from town where they…

— Ryan Bingham

I spent most of my formative years in rural Oregon.

— Ty Burrell

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.

— Parker Harris

I grew up in Oregon. I have a younger brother and an older sister. We were very poor. VERY POOR. We lived in a…

— Cole Escola

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that…

— Marco Rubio

I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.

— John W. Thompson