Brother Quote by Prunella Scales

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was…

— Brian Blessed

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing…

— Martin Lewis Perl

The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to…

— Angus Deaton

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education,

— Rory Bremner

In the mid-1970s I worked at Vauxhall Manor school, a girls comprehensive in south London.

— Michael Rosen

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan,…

— Anne Waldman

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents…

— Wilbur Smith

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother…

— Jason Clarke

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing…

— Gene Kelly

I was sent to boarding school at the age of ten. I think Mummy was trying to protect me in her own way, trying…

— Lysette Anthony

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

— Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark

My mother didn't feel very satisfied about the English background that I had received in the public schools in Littleton. So, she insisted that…

— Ella Baker