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“My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.”

Littles Father Summer Boat Vacation Sailor Sailboat Summer Vacation Mopeds

Author:Ernesto Bertarelli

“When Father smiled, it was like the sun coming out, and spring and summer in your heart.”

Heart Father Sun Summer Spring Coming Out

Author:Gladys Taber

“My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer vacations. And I think that's the American way and one of the things that excites me about this race is that pretty much everything I've done I've started at the bottom and been able to finish at the top.”

Thinking Way Firsts Done Able Father Speak Race Summer Bottom Grades Vacation Factories Speak English Summer Vacation

Author:George Pataki

“I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.”

Thinking Hands Jobs Father Football Summer Lays Bricks Catching Helpers Bricklayers

Author:Jerry Rice

“Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?”

“My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.”

Littles Father Months Ten Summer Winter Locals Hats Farms Farmers Prosperous Acres Winter Months Summer Time

Book:An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)

Source: An Artilleryman's Civil War Diary (Abridged, Annotated)