My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My grandfather was a shoemaker who worked in a shoe factory.
My parents were immigrants and janitors.
I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.
My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
I was the first person to go to university from my family.
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
I was the first one in my family to go to college.
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.