Basis Quote by Mike Tomlin

My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.

— Stephen Pagliuca

My momma worked at the shipyard. She worked every kind of job.

— JaMarcus Russell

I grew up in a Navy family.

— Elizabeth Edwards

My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

— Dave Van Ronk

I remember I had to have steel toecaps because my nana said, 'They'll last,' and I remember being bullied because my shoes weren't like…

— Angela Rayner

I grew up with a bunch of factory workers.

— Bobby Cannavale

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

— Paulo Coelho

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

— Donald Ray Pollock

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on…

— Richard Russo

My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.

— Esther McVey

I served in the Army. I worked at blue-collar jobs. I washed dishes and bused tables.

— Richard Cohen

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

— Richard Kadrey