Fruit Quote by Petra Stunt

My great grandmother, Martha, was hired at 11 years old to be a worker to people.

— Amybeth McNulty

My grandmom worked as a maid for most of her life, and she worked in the tobacco and the cotton fields, whatever she could…

— Viola Davis

My grandma was somebody who had a garden and grew plants all the time.

— Chris Redd

My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the…

— Willard Scott

My father ran a grocery store.

— Ritesh Agarwal

My father is a street sweeper, my mother works in a shop.

— Maimouna Doucoure

With just an elementary school education, my father worked as a short order cook for forty years before retirement. He liked to boast that…

— Alex Padilla

My mother cleaned hotel rooms and worked in a video store. My father delivered newspapers and washed dishes in restaurants.

— Leana S. Wen

My grandmother was content to sit in the back yard wearing her old, wide-brimmed summer hat and occasionally getting up to feed herself raspberries…

— Keith Gessen

My mother worked at home, making clothes, trying to make some money.

— Carlos Carvalhal

My mother was creative in the kitchen.

— John Carter Cash

My mom's grandparents came over to Hawaii to work in the sugarcane fields.

— Evan Mock