Mother And Father Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 21, 2024
‘Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.’ – Henry Louis Gates
‘I don’t think children’s inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.’ – Beverly Cleary
‘My beauty icon is the love between my mother and father.’ – Stella Maxwell
‘I’m proud of my hard work. Working hard won’t always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I’ve wanted that I haven’t always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.’ – Tamron Hall
‘God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they’ve done for our family.’ – Coy Bowles
‘The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.’ – Dan Rather
‘Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.’ – Stone Cold Steve Austin
‘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.’ – B. F. Skinner
‘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.’ – Nancy Friday
‘No matter how old we become, we can still call them ‘Holy Mother’ and ‘Father’ and put a child-like trust in them.’ – Desmond Morris
‘When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn’t really know it.’ – Aneurin Barnard
‘My family – my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.’ – Ruby Bridges
‘My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right.’ – Anthony Ray Hinton
‘I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.’ – Liev Schreiber
‘I’m a product of this visionary mother and father.’ – Kiran Bedi
‘I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.’ – Robert H. Schuller
‘My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.’ – Adam Ondra
‘My mother and father didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting.’ – Tina Turner
‘I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just – there wasn’t a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.’ – Betty White
‘My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.’ – Orson Welles
‘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.’ – Dichen Lachman
‘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.’ – Jack Wagner
‘I’ve got very little grey hair. It’s to do with the genes. My mother and father were the same.’ – Prunella Scales
‘My mother and father were middle-class, and my grandmother lived in the ghetto, so I used to spend my summers at her house.’ – Sisqo
‘There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.’ – Shirley Knight
‘I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.’ – Hedy Lamarr
‘Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.’ – Marcel Duchamp
‘The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.’ – Christopher Eccleston
‘I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.’ – Giancarlo Esposito
‘I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old – basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend’s house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend’s house. It just struck me as something I really wanted.’ – Greg Lake
‘My mother and father met while playing chess, so I’ve always had a fondness for the game. If it weren’t for chess, I might not be here.’ – Dorothy Dunnett
‘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.’ – Dave Van Ronk
‘Growing up, my mom was my mother and father figure. She was my role model. I looked up to her. She was all we ever needed.’ – Brook Lopez
‘The thing is that my father’s story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his – really, her story can’t be told without his story.’ – Rory Kennedy
‘My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, ‘I want to be an actor.’ They worried it was a waste of time.’ – Sean Bean
‘My mom is just incredible. She’s delved into both the mother and father figure in my life.’ – Devin Druid
‘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.’ – Robert Cormier
‘I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.’ – Jerry Mathers
‘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.’ – Mary Crosby
‘My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.’ – Rufus Wainwright
‘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.’ – Barbara Mikulski
‘One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.’ – Method Man
‘But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.’ – Rachael Leigh Cook
‘My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.’ – Joe Montana
‘I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.’ – Dominic Chianese
‘Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.’ – David Dinkins
‘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.’ – Roy Ayers
‘Would not the child’s heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?’ – Max Muller
‘The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne’er do well, who they’d have to keep worrying about.’ – Diane Cilento
‘The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.’ – Amar Bose
‘My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I’m quite a loving person and I’ve always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I’m very interested in other people, and if you are, they’re interested in you.’ – Boy George
‘Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes.’ – Todd Tiahrt
‘Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.’ – James Gandolfini
‘I’ve gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I’ve wronged her and I’ve wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn’t just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.’ – John Prescott
‘My mother and father are very involved with music. It’s completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.’ – P. J. Harvey
‘My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.’ – Chazz Palminteri
‘I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.’ – Ann Romney
‘The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.’ – Madeleine Albright
‘There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.’ – Nick Carter
‘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.’ – Colin Hay
‘I’m a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It’s pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too.’ – Timothy F. Cahill
‘I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.’ – Jeb Bush
‘I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn’t know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.’ – Prince
‘I loved my mother and father.’ – Roger Moore
‘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.’ – Clive Anderson
‘Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.’ – Olivia Williams
‘My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I’ve got too much to do now. I’m only 27.’ – Katherine Jenkins
‘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.’ – Jennifer Garner
‘One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.’ – Andy Murray
‘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.’ – Janet McTeer
‘I’m working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.’ – Paz de la Huerta
‘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.’ – Alice Englert
‘When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn’t control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.’ – Jo Nesbo
‘For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person’s gone – the mother and father if you have kids.’ – Jessy Schram
‘My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.’ – John Lewis
‘My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.’ – Jonathan Winters
‘I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.’ – Chaske Spencer
‘I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each – eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.’ – Joshua Ferris
‘My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.’ – Marina Abramovic
‘My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn’t say my relationship with either of them – they’re no longer together – is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.’ – Marya Hornbacher
‘My mother and father were interested in the arts.’ – Ken Adam
‘My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about ‘Coraline’ long before the film was made, and she got the book and read it. She reminded me that when I was about five years old, I used to sit in the kitchen for hours and talk about my ‘other’ family in Africa, my other mother and father. I had totally forgotten that.’ – Henry Selick
‘I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They’ve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.’ – Josie Loren
‘I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that’s where the love came from.’ – Chuck D
‘People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I’m very close with all four of my older sisters as well.’ – Sammi Hanratty
‘My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today’s street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.’ – Brian J. White
‘My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, ‘If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn’t be the problems that there are.’ In other words, ‘treat people the way you want to be treated.’ If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won’t make a right.’ – Monte Irvin
‘The first thing that I learned – and I understood it at a really young age – was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.’ – George Clooney
‘My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people’s tax returns.’ – Patti Smith
‘The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn’t.’ – Marcus Samuelsson
‘As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I’d score 40 points. I’d come home and say, ‘Look dad, I scored 40.’ He’d never have a smile on his face. He’d be like, ‘I saw that move you did. What if you’d hurt your knee?” – Shaquille O’Neal
‘My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.’ – John Cassavetes
‘I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie – ‘Stanley and Livingstone.” – Stanley Hauerwas
‘All of us wish we’d had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.’ – Marianne Williamson
‘Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.’ – Larenz Tate
‘My love for artichokes comes from when I was very young. My mother and father would slice the hearts and fry them, and they would be crispy around the leaves and tender at the base.’ – Jose Andres
‘We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don’t have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.’ – Bill Cosby
‘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.’ – Michael Douglas
‘I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the ‘metro.’ Everybody saw me as a very urban guy. And I was.’ – Per Petterson
‘To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don’t think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else’s. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.’ – Per Petterson
‘I went to all the shops in the village looking for work. I didn’t have any qualifications. I ended up working in a grocery shop for about a year and then went to a confectioner, where I earned three pounds 10 shillings. I gave the money to my mother and father, but I also managed to save five shillings a week.’ – Bonnie Tyler
‘My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, ‘Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song …” – Al Jarreau
‘My mother and father definitely encouraged me. People used to tell my mom that I should be in commercials, and then everything kicked off from there, and my first gig was some print work.’ – Raven Goodwin
‘I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don’t live together and don’t share in decisions is a great depravation for children.’ – Gail Sheehy
‘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!’ – Chet Faker
‘The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.’ – James Rosenquist
‘My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.’ – Lizzo
‘When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, ‘If I kill someone, would you still love me?’ My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I’m not the only one to ask for that – not love, but absolute fidelity.’ – Claire Denis
‘When my mother and father fell in love, my mother’s family would never accept it.’ – Euzhan Palcy
‘It used to be, on TV, you’d see only two types of Asians. You’d see the science geek who’s using his mobile phone or something like that, or you’d see a very token Asian family – yuppie mother and father and two little Asian kids. It’s the last barrier for Hollywood.’ – Kevin Kwan
‘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.’ – Gregory Benford
‘My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old.’ – Tom Brokaw
‘My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.’ – Susan Straight
‘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.’ – Pete Hamill
‘You know how my mother and father met? In a train robbery!’ – Tzipi Livni
‘One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.’ – Patty Duke
‘Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.’ – Tom Sizemore
‘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.’ – Mary Steenburgen
‘My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave.’ – Marina Abramovic
‘In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.’ – Henrikh Mkhitaryan
‘I’ve tried to live my life in a way that respects the beliefs of my mother and father. Everyone has blessings, gifts, passion, and drive.’ – Kimberly Guilfoyle
‘I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that’s what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn’t get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.’ – Harry Dean Stanton
‘At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters – we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.’ – Jesmyn Ward
‘Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records – to the shock of my mother and father because I was always playing Beethoven. But I bought my mother a mink stole. She was very happy, and she said, ‘I think this is better than Beethoven.” – Neil Sedaka
‘My father had to play the role of mother and father.’ – Diego Luna
‘I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother’s compassion, intelligence, and maturity.’ – Christie Hefner
‘She had to play the role of mother and father at the same time, and she did it to perfection. I managed to find a way through because of her. My mother is my biggest inspiration.’ – Kaya Scodelario
‘My mother and father were visionaries in Pittsburgh, part of that collective of people who were creative and active together, and I am a product of that community and those relationships.’ – Lamman Rucker
‘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.’ – Coy Bowles
‘After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We’d ride around together talking and listening to music.’ – Brian Tyree Henry
‘My mother and father just taught me the basics: to be really kind, to really listen to people. I have never been one to put on airs and graces.’ – Edward Enninful
‘I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and father were feuding, so my mother would take us to live in my grandmother’s house.’ – John Edgar Wideman
‘My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.’ – Sabaa Tahir
‘My mother and father are exceptionally proud Indians. They always wanted to contribute, to give back philanthropically, especially in the field of education.’ – Roshni Nadar
‘My mother and father have been fantastic help and a huge support for me. Like any other family, though, we have our moments, living and working together.’ – James William Middleton
‘My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.’ – Elizabeth Diller
‘There was a point where I was leaving for California when I was 22. It was a tough decision to make because, at that time, my mother and father both ran a successful chain of women’s lingerie stores in metro Detroit. Two were called Bra World, and two were called Lulu’s Lingerie. They were great. They did well.’ – Ted Raimi
‘I got very lucky with the family I was born into. From my older sisters to my mother and father, they’re just good, kind-hearted people.’ – Milo Ventimiglia
‘My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.’ – Karamo Brown
‘During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were at war. I was at war with my atypical nature, desperately trying to fit in and be normal. Even my genes were at war – the cool Swiss-German side versus the hot-headed Corsican.’ – Viv Albertine
‘The tattoos are about my grandmother dying, and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It’s pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football, too.’ – Timothy F. Cahill
‘My mother and father are big musical heroes of mine. I think it was because it was the first memories that I have of actually hearing music and falling in love with it and wanting to be a part of it in some way.’ – Jay DeMarcus
‘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.” – Peter Tosh
‘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.’ – Lukas Podolski
‘Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.’ – Jamal Khashoggi
‘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.’ – Kenny Smith
‘It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, ‘Do whatever you want, as long as you’re the best at it.” – David Haye
‘Both my mother and father worked for everything that they had.’ – Evan Ross
‘I know how critical that is, having a mother and father involved in your life, and I’m going to continue to be the most involved father hopefully that you’ll ever see.’ – Dakota Meyer
‘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.’ – Alex Haley
‘If people look at me and, certainly, my brothers, and they see strength and guts, they’d have to know my parents. If they wanted to know why we’re so close as a family, that closeness comes from my mother and father.’ – Diana Lopez
‘I love Coney Island. I saw all different kinds of people – Russian, Italian, black, Puerto Rican, rich people in Sea Gate and in the co-ops. You’d see people in the co-ops or in the houses, and it was like, Man, I wish I could have this. I wish my mother and father could buy me this. Me being an independent thinker, I was like, I’m gonna get that.’ – Stephon Marbury
‘I’m a product of the different – whether it be institutional racialism, whether it might be growing up in a low-income area, whether it might be, you know, coming from my mother, my father. I’m a totally different person from my mother and father, but once again I’m from them. We all have our different souls, but I’m from them.’ – Lil B
‘I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.’ – Boney Kapoor
‘I was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and we lived there for three to five years – with my mother and father. And then they divorced and she came back to America.’ – Yasmin Aga Khan
‘I understand my mother and father and sister are in Turkey, but if I stop talking, who is going to speak for the thousands and thousands of innocent people in jail?’ – Enes Kanter
‘My mother and father both died at 64.’ – Jim Ross
‘My mother and father have always drilled in to me that work is very important.’ – Spencer Matthews
‘When I was a kid, I dreamt of being a runner. My mother and father always told me to go after what I wanted. I went after running.’ – Dutee Chand
‘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.’ – Bruno Sammartino
‘I belong to a highly religious family. Both my mother and father perform fasting, do shrads and completely believe in Ganpati. This has influenced me and that is why even I am so religious.’ – Rakhi Sawant
‘My mother and father were farmers from very humble means, and when I was three years old they moved from the roca to the city to try to give us a better life. My father took a job at a winery and my mother worked as a seamstress.’ – Tite
‘A feminist is a person who wants equal things for men and women, and I definitely believe in that. This doesn’t mean I will degrade anyone. In our house, I want my mother and father to have equal importance and that’s the only way to bring up a socially responsible child.’ – Aishwarya Lekshmi
‘My mother and father were lovely parents, always quite hard up, but very hard-working.’ – Prunella Scales
‘We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.’ – David Steward
‘I really ran away in 1951 from South Africa, where I lived with my mother and father – who was a doctor – to come back to England to find myself, then hide what I found.’ – Nigel Hawthorne
‘I was always the headstrong child in the family. My mother and father called me a rebel at 2 years old. But they always accepted me as an individual.’ – Princess Stephanie of Monaco
‘The photo shoots were not easy. I cried and refused to do anything that would shame my mother and father.’ – Liz Mitchell
‘I sacrificed a lot. I wasn’t able to be with my mother and father for how many months and years and then of course, training was excruciating.’ – Hidilyn Diaz
‘My mother and father had to change every clock in the house manually and they had three small children. Yet I never remember them complaining about something so inconsequential as Daylight Saving Time.’ – Mary Katharine Ham
‘My father was born into a family transport business and, as a kid, it was exciting having big trucks to sit in. It wasn’t a kissy-cuddly environment. It was Mother and Father as opposed to Mummy and Daddy. I would shake my father’s hand and kiss my mother on the cheek rather than hug them, but it was a close family unit.’ – David Coulthard
‘I would love to tell you I had the worst childhood you could ever imagine but believe it or not it was idyllic. I had two older brothers that I idolised, two younger brothers that I played with, sisters I adored and a mother and father I had great respect for.’ – Martin O’Neill
‘I did everything I could to fight hard on the court to show my mother and father that their hard work was worth it.’ – Roberto Bautista Agut
‘I love where I’m from. That’s where my mother and father grew up, where all my family’s at. It really built me.’ – Mark Ingram II
‘My mother and father put down some earnest money on a house on the north side of Chicago. I don’t remember the details, but it got all messed up and we had to go back to that house and get that money back. I had to do that negotiation… It’s not a situation that children should be put into.’ – Paul Raci
‘My mother and father were born in the big country, the U.S.S.R. But my father was really born in Moldova and he spoke only Moldovan until he was 10.’ – Dmitry Bivol