A word, for example, that is negative, pejorative, and has caused more pain and suffering is ‘illegitimate.’ But every person has a mother and father. It is another way we let society hurt others.
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie – ‘Stanley and Livingstone.’
I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn’t perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.
My mother and father didn’t know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, ‘My, the man play that guitar nice.’
My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.
Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.
I didn’t have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard’s notoriety. I’m proud of the work I did on Dallas.
Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
It’s like my parents’ musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It’s their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt ‘safe’ there.
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
I love kids, and I think I would be a great dad. I had great parents, and my mother and father are my best friends, so I’d have good examples to lead from.
My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.
My father’s from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she’s actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Australia with my mother and father. So yeah, I’m very mixed up, been to many different schools.
Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn’t count.
The photo shoots were not easy. I cried and refused to do anything that would shame my mother and father.
My mom is just incredible. She’s delved into both the mother and father figure in my life.
My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today’s street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that’s where the love came from.
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.
You know how my mother and father met? In a train robbery!
When you come from Poland, you have nothing. Your mother and father are working. You have only a bed for sleep. You have a kitchen, and that’s it. You must fight.
When my mother and father fell in love, my mother’s family would never accept it.
My mother and father didn’t treat my brothers and sisters the same, so to treat 12 players exactly the same, that’s a great accomplishment.
I don’t think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, ‘Is it? Why? Why is it like that?’ Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.
My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn’t last very long.
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.
My mother and father have always drilled in to me that work is very important.
I’m a product of this visionary mother and father.
I was never going to do anything that would have brought shame to my family. I owed too much, and I wanted them to be proud to say that they were Bruno Sammartino’s mother and father.
My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.
I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.
I was born in 1935. But my mother and father – who were immigrants from Ireland – and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, ‘Is it? Why? Why is it like that?’ Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.
My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.
I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.
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