Childhood Quote by Kate Atkinson

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was…

— Dick Gephardt

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

— Sebastian Pinera

No doubt, my parents were hardworking, you know, middle class. My father, when my sister and I were younger, he was a parking attendant…

— Catherine Cortez-Masto

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

— Martin Lewis Perl

I grew up in a middle-class family, my dad was a truck driver with UPS. He made good money, so it wasn't like I…

— Steve Harwell

My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of…

— Lorrie Moore

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four…

— Patti Smith

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me…

— Abraham A. Ribicoff

I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.

— Michelle Monaghan

My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver's education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked the tobacco…

— Kelvin Sampson

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents…

— Sugar Ray Leonard

I came from a middle-class family. My father was a professor in a medical college, and my mother was a schoolteacher. We led a…

— Sudha Murty