Civil war Quote by Michael Portillo

My father was a journalist.

— Daniel Snyder

My father was in the First World War.

— Doris Lessing

My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly…

— George Clooney

My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that…

— Tom Glazer

As a kid I loved to listen to the radio, later I became a radio artiste and would listen to the BBC.

— Sowcar Janaki

I'd always fought against presenting radio really, because my father was a radio DJ in Australia. He's just recently retired. And I kind of…

— Jarvis Cocker

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

— David Johansen

My father, a musician who worked with All India Radio, is no more. My mother had a government job at BSNL and was always…

— Sayani Gupta

My great-grandfather is where I channeled making my own music from.

— Darren Waller

My parents are actually very famous singers in Bulgaria. My dad was in a rock band, and my mom was in a pop group.…

— Leah LaBelle

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.

— Jeremy Corbyn