Gail Bradbrook Quotes

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?

I was raised in inner-city Liverpool, the first in my family to go to university.

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

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

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.