My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy…

“Because history has the functions it has—supplying practical lessons and moral examples, shaping a culture’s identity and even influencing one’s view of destiny—it is…

— Heath White

I went almost naked to see that my mother was kept decent and treated as a human being for the first time in all…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

“If mother kept a list of the reasons she confined me to the house on the hill, she'd have a length of paper that…

— Leslye Walton

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

— Alan King

My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn't…

— Glenda Jackson

My mother has always kept the entire family together - my dad, due to his business, has always been travelling, and hence, she at…

— Karan Patel

I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she…

— Ving Rhames

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight.

— Evander Holyfield

When my daughter went to school, her last name was mine. The school insisted that her father's name be added to hers, not her…

— Mahesh Manjrekar

“Mrs. (Fanie Lou) Hamer, like her mother, also kept weapons nearby in case she needed them: 'I keep a shotgun in every corner of…

— Charles E. Cobb Jr

My mother kept every single thing that she ever got in her life.

— John F. Kennedy Jr

“Baba was gone forever. My mother kept waiting for him until the day she died, just as she waited to return home, just as…

— Susan Abulhawa

My mother always kept us involved in various types of art.

— Dante Basco

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

— James Weldon Johnson

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in…

— Teddy Pendergrass