Father Quote by Spike Milligan

There were no good schools in my village. So my family moved so that my siblings and I would get a better education.

— Nirmal Purja

After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school.

— Guler Sabanci

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my…

— Nikki Giovanni

We had a great childhood and boyhood. It was a wonderful time through those years. A lot of it was through the Depression years,…

— James Arness

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

School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was…

— Jo Brand

I was young, so I was part of youth culture. The years went by, I became older and no longer part of youth culture,…

— Roger Corman

I went to quite a nice school as a kid, where everyone was quite posh, because my dad was making some money.

— Michael McIntyre

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

When I swapped studying for a wage and a proper job, Mam and Dad were devastated. I was rejecting an opportunity they never had.…

— Dennis Skinner

We were quite a middle class family, but we had access to all the good things in life, be it books or access to…

— Kiran Rao

In 1940 my mum took a job as under-matron at her old school, which had been evacuated from Eastbourne to Windermere; I got a…

— Prunella Scales