Diane Abbott Quotes

My parents were blue-collar.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.

I come from a blue collar background.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous.

I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

A lot of what we do at Fox is blue-collar stuff.

My dad was working class.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

I come from a very working-class background.

People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

There was a time when you could make a living by the sweat of your brow. Those days are over!

I'd rather not be a roofer.

I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

My dad worked as a floor manager in a clothing mill in Dombivli and my mom is a housewife.

I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.

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

My father was a storekeeper at a factory in west London.

People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture.