Black Quote by Marc Singer

My grandfather, as I said, was industrious. He'd had a variety of jobs and decided sometime in the 1940s that he would never work…

— Clarence Thomas

My father was the classic epitome of a very hard immigrant-worker. He made up for his lack of education by working really hard... He…

— Jonny Kim

My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My…

— Freeman A. Hrabowski III

The great example, the killer example in history, is of course Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. Read his speeches. Read the debates. Wendell Phillips…

— Bill Ayers

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

— Philip Warren Anderson

My father was a foreman on building sites and he was really good at getting a day's work out of fellas. And he did…

— Adrian Dunbar

My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs…

— Domhnall Gleeson

When I was 12 I worked with someone - it was actually an English teacher at my school, John Woodward. He was the only…

— Peter Jones

My history teacher was so old, he taught from memory.

— Henny Youngman

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress,…

— Norman Foster

Many people, including myself, thought of Jobs as an inventor, an Edison-like figure, but he wasn't. I did a documentary on James Brown recently;…

— Alex Gibney

I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows…

— Tyson Chandler