Electricity Quote by Laila Rouass

When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening…

— Jools Holland

We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.

— Glen Campbell

Mum stayed home to look after us, and Dad was an electrician, working long hours to support us. We never went without, but we…

— Steph Houghton

“I wanted to be at my parents’ house when electricity came. It was in 1940. We’d all go around flipping the switch, to make…

— Studs Terkel

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

My family's challenges meant we lived hand to mouth. There were weeks when we had neither electricity nor heating.

— Theo Paphitis

Our parents didn't let us watch a lot of television growing up. We had Disney on Sunday nights, and at 8:30, they were like,…

— Courtney B. Vance

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove.…

— Jill Scott

Electricity is a wonderful thing. Do you realise that if we didn't have electricity, we'd be watching television by candle light?

— Tommy Cooper

There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and…

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr

My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked,…

— James Thurber