No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn't having it. She was like, you're not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you're going to be out of luck.
You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.
Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.
My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.
My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.
I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.