Occupational Inheritance Quotes

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

My father was a security guard. I was a security guard.

Ministers come from a household of ministers, and generals come from a household of generals.

Junk runs in the family. My granddad was a junk man in St. Louis and so was my uncle.

I know we don't all follow in the family footsteps, but you are, I suppose, more likely to consider becoming a butcher if you have spent your childhood watching a parent debone a pig.

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

When I first became a mother, I didn't want my son to have any extra exposure to what I did. I had this theory that if he wanted to do what I do for a living, it should be organic and come from him, not from the fact that this was just what he saw all the time.

I'm the third or fourth generation of actor in my family; I'm sure if they were butchers, I'd be a butcher, too.