“While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.” TwoEndsSchoolJobsEducationCuttingSonBusyDawnTwo Jobs Author:Slick Rick
“I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.” SchoolFatherBoysTeachTeacherSonPhysicsSydneyEveryman Author:Alex O'Loughlin
“If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.” IfsWholeSchoolMotherSonSummerIf I CouldMy SonCampsSummer Camp Author:Nate Mendel
“The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.” YearsFirstsArtRunningSchoolFatherWonderfulDesignSonProfessionShopsMakersRunning AwayInteriorsCabinetsInterior DesignArt SchoolProfessional LifeEldestIndustrial DesignEldest Son Author:Peter Zumthor
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.” HomeKidsSchoolSkySonDrawingDiamondLucyLsd Author:Paul McCartney
“My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.” LooksSchoolTeacherSonGeniusPaintPainterApplesMy Son Author:Charles Mingus
“I need energy every day. Whether I'm leaving home and going to practice or getting in the car with my two kids to take my son to school - I need all the energy I can get.” NeedsI CanTwoHomeKidsSchoolEnergyPracticeCarSonLeavingMy SonLeaving Home Author:Chris Paul
“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.” ThinkingYearsAbleSchoolPresidentLeaderHappenedTeamTaughtSonBaseballThirdsFormerCorporationsAweGradesImmigrantsStringsItalianTraveledPitcherDeanPhilanthropistMiltonHanging AroundDineGrades In SchoolFinanciersBaseball Team Author:Tommy Lasorda
“I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run theatre companies and bought a butcher's shop, learnt guitar by myself, taught myself to sing and that sort of stuff.” RunningSchoolStuffMy OwnCompanyTaughtSonGuitarTheatreShopsButchers Author:Stella Vine
“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.” IdeasSchoolLawActorsSportsHurtCitiesPlayerSonBrokenGrewDadBasketballGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolBaseballRaisedMy DadBonesCoachesNo IdeaTexasCampsRoyalCollarsCardinalsBaseball PlayerKansasBasketball CoachArkansasKansas CityGot HurtTraining Camp Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.” WayFirstsWellsLooksChildrenPersonsTwoHomeSchoolHouseRoomsCollegeSonGrewGrew UpCongressCrowdsWoundsJust OneGraduatesSpeakersBathroomFirst PersonBartenderWrong Crowd Author:Jay Leno
“My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.” SchoolMotherPrayerTeacherSonMomPrayingMy MomSundaySchool TeachersSunday SchoolSunday School Teacher Author:Steve Harvey
“I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.” I CanKidsSchoolSeeingSonOvercomingMy SonMotivatedDisabilityLearning Disability Author:Jason Alexander
“My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.” ShouldSchoolParentSonProudDramaTheatreCoalScholarshipUnheardMinersCoal Miners Author:Brian Blessed
“I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesDifferentSchoolGirlReadingHouseCausesParentBoysSonThirdsAccountsListsGradesMy SonBoy And GirlPrairieThird GradeLike A BoyLittle House On The Prairie Author:Jon Scieszka