I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my…

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and…

— Clive Anderson

When I was a child, a lot of my time was spent in Scotland because my mother's Scottish, and we used to go up…

— Jennifer Saunders

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would…

— E. L. Doctorow

I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything…

— Mickey Rooney

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they…

— Ruby Bridges

The fan mail I get from kids are asking me questions which they do not ask their mothers and fathers. Because if they had,…

— Maurice Sendak

“Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't…

— J. D. Salinger

“A grim expression came over Syah’s face. “The colt you speak of lost its mother during a storm. If this stallion was that colt,…

— Danielle Raver

“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further from the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

When I got my first check I was thinking my mother and father didn't make this probably in their lifetime. It's real amazing that…

— Dwyane Wade

“Other freshmen were already moving into their dormitory rooms when we arrived, with their parents helping haul. I saw boxes of paperbacks, stereo equipment,…

— Louise Erdrich

We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.

— David Steward

My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she got the…

— Henry Selick

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

— Ken Venturi

Our mother and father are our way of life.

— Anonymous