There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.
My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things.
Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.
I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!
My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.
I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.