Background Quote by Michelle Monaghan

I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in…

— Gail Bradbrook

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

— Tom Jones

My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me…

— Abraham A. Ribicoff

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

— Chris Hayes

I came from a middle-class family. My father was a professor in a medical college, and my mother was a schoolteacher. We led a…

— Sudha Murty

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.

— Matt de la Pena

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher.…

— Lewis Black

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

— Jon Bon Jovi

I come from a humble background. My dad moved to London 45 years ago and worked as a bus conductor whereas my mother worked…

— Raj Kundra

My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4,…

— Bonnie Hammer

My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little…

— Roger Allam

My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of the army…

— W. G. Sebald