Built Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such;…

— Al Franken

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing…

— Martin Lewis Perl

Growing up, our household felt unusual because none of my friends' parents had creative jobs like mine did: my dad was an artist, illustrator…

— Rebecca Front

My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.

— Sheryl Sandberg

With just an elementary school education, my father worked as a short order cook for forty years before retirement. He liked to boast that…

— Alex Padilla

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the…

— Geraldine Brooks

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We…

— Al Franken

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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 one of six children with working-class parents in the Deep South. My mother was a college librarian, and my father worked…

— Stacey Abrams

At 19, while studying at St Xavier's College and majoring in literature and sociology, I got my first job as a copywriter. It was…

— Zoya Akhtar

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold…

— Al Franken