My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.
The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.
My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.
I'm a mama's boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won't do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.
While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.
My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.
I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.
I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.
What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.
The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined.
That MySpace is the story of the year. Everyone but my mother is on it.
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.
My mother knitted a lot, but I never did; it was no fun.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.
My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of roller coaster times. But it's all I knew. I think they did the best they could under the circumstances, with me and all the family.
My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
My sisters have been baptized and my dad is a deacon at his church now. Sadly my mother passed away but what I can say is that the Jehovah Witnesses took very good care of her up until she died.
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.
My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family. My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there was no doubt about it.
My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
I have a very flexible and easy schedule that affords me a wonderful lifestyle in Los Angeles. I'm able to be a very present mother, able to pursue other projects.
I started drawing a mouse because it was my father's nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive.
