David Jason Quotes

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

I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

My father, Cecil Banks Mullis, and mother, formerly Bernice Alberta Barker, grew up in rural North Carolina in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My dad's family had a general store, which I never saw. My grandparents on his side had already died before I started noticing things.

My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She has a West Virginian accent. My father was born in China, but he's the son of an American citizen. My paternal grandfather was born in San Francisco in 1867.

At the fishmonger, choose fish with bright scales and clear eyes.

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

I was the youngest of four kids, and Dad, who had a garden centre before he retired, came from a large Lancashire family. Every one of my uncles had their own business, including a post office, two fish and chip shops and a painting and decorating business.

My father was a small business owner. When I was growing up, he ran a one-hour photo store - back when there were one-hour photo stores.

My mother was a full-time mom, and Dad started his own business. He was a mini-American dream story. Came from Russia at age 4, started his own pen business in Brooklyn. The company isn't around now, but he created his own healthy little world, leaving a decent legacy. My dad taught at Cooper Union but was never fully graduated himself.

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

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

My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us.

My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery.

My family has always made clothes. Growing up I can remember sewing machines being everywhere.

My dad was the 10th of 11 children. My mother has three brothers. My dad was a salesman, my mum was a school nurse.

My father is a hotelier in Karnataka. There're no actors in my family.

My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city.