Big Quote by Max Walker

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening…

— Brian Blessed

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers…

— Richard Flanagan

My father was a storekeeper at a factory in west London.

— Ian Gillan

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they…

— Quincy Jones

I had the great fortune to work with John Houseman at Juilliard.

— Stephen Henderson

He was the father of the neighborhood and the voice of reason for everyone. Everything I needed to know to run my business and…

— Rich Paul

My father was Australian.

— Jamey Sheridan

My father was an architect.

— Jocelyn Bell Burnell

My dad's first-ever real true job was at Ford Motor Company. He was a UAW member.

— Rashida Tlaib

My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept…

— Ann Dowd

My dad was a big Woody Hayes guy.

— Urban Meyer

My father grew up in Levittown, L.I., in the first tract housing built for G.I.'s. His dad had stormed the beaches of Omaha and…

— Bert Kreischer