Paul Rodgers Quotes

The truth is that my grandfather was quite wealthy, a shipbuilder.

Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.

I am the son of a mine worker.

My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an office assistant.

My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.

The number of shipping far surpassed all I have seen in Boston. About 350 [ships] still lay off the town.

My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.

When I was born, my dad was a scaffolder, and my mum worked in a chip shop. Then my mum taught herself how to be a hairdresser and ended up with her own salon; my dad became a postman and then a counter clerk. Our first house didn't have a bathroom.

My paternal grandfather worked in the mill all his life. My father worked in the mill almost his whole life. I worked in the mill while I was going to college in the summers. And then, for one stretch, I quit school and worked one year.

My dad was down the pit and my mother worked in a newsagent.

There are four of us, and we were all born in different cities because my dad worked all around the place. We settled in Birmingham, so I spent most of my time growing up there. We were all given very Welsh names - Geraint, Owen, Rhiannon and Gwilym. My mum's called Cainwen, and my dad is somewhat disappointingly called Tom.

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.

My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

Let's start off with my father being a mailman.

Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's worm her hulk shall bore,And sink her in the Indian seas,Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas.

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.