Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If…

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

— Peter DeLuise

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look…

— Jonathan Winters

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because…

— Frank McCourt

Marriage is something women do when they forget what their mother went through.

— Vikrant Parsai

Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the…

— Augusten Burroughs

My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the…

— Grace Paley

When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were at school,…

— Ginni Rometty

Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.

— John Kennedy Toole

My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop…

— Brian Cox

When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science.

— Celeste Ng

“When I was five and Sarah seven, my mother went on a trip. She was gone from our home in Rochester, New York, for…

— Katie Hafner

The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes…

— Milan Kundera

Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge…

— Frank B. Gilbreth Jr

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities,…

— Sophie Calle

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

— Billy Carter