While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. 1.49K
It never occurred to me that I wouldn’t go to college and have a career – as well as a family – of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible. 521
I’m considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family – father, mother, children – is fundamental to our civilisation. 518
I’m a strange mixture of my mother’s curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother’s father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts. 722
My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn’t a man made a big difference. 567
The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother’s wall in her house. 2.27K
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. 560
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women – 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data – is practically absurd and morally indefensible. 1.93K
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concretize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. 700
My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet. 823
There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative. 2.24K
You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you. 561
I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children. 487
My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We’re all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy. 482
My grandfather’s family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me. 516
I like to feel that what I’m doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It’s a subject that is near and dear to me. 550
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father. 549
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. 544
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family’s subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father. 571
