Sarah Cooper Quotes

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.

I was raised to work for my father when I was four.

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

I lived with my mom my whole life; her work ethic was ridiculous, and it hasn't changed.

Hispanics work hard and are willing to make tremendous sacrifices for the next generation.

My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and that's what I remember now, having my own child. I think, 'Oh so what?' Kids don't go around the house seeing what's wrong with it.

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.

My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.

Our father always made us work. I think that's the greatest thing a parent could ever do.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Both my mother and father worked for everything that they had.

I've never wanted my kid faced with the idea of, 'Who's the fat guy sitting in the living room? What the hell is he doing?' I figure I might as well go to work so he can say his dad works.

Once you start listening to the comics, be they Jewish, Muslim, Italian, Filipino or whatever, the material often springs from the same source - the overbearing mom, the parents who want you to marry from within your community. That's why the 'Ethnic Show' works so well.

Coming from immigrant Italian people, the one thing you do is work hard.

My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.

My life is devoted to business and supporting my family.

You've got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was definitely a hustler. With six kids in the house, you always got to be hustling. And my mom, she's got sick work ethic.

I think my mom and dad have an incredible work ethic, and we've grown up around it.

I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.

I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.

My parents instilled a strong work ethic early on in my life.

A lot of my success, and a lot of who I am now, is because of my dad, and the way he raised me and taught me how to have a work ethic.