My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed…

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

— Heather Brooke

“I’m going to end up like my mother. She left it too late to remember who she actually was before she became a wife.”

— Jojo Moyes

The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that…

— Robert Carlyle

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

— David Antin

“Maya knows that her mother left her in Island Books. But maybe that’s what happens to all children at a certain age. Some children…

— Gabrielle Zevin

At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.

— Bill Forsyth

My father disowned me and my mother left me. It was difficult but I took Lord Ganesha's and Jesus's name and could pass through…

— Rakhi Sawant

Life hasn't always been fair, sometimes it has been very mean. I fell down along the way, I got wounds that couldn't be seen.…

— Mercy Pheona

“I'm very glad my mother left my father, of course, but as I got older it did get harder to valorize that flight. This…

— Gwendoline Riley

My mother left me when I was 2 years old which is devestating to a child.

— Kellie Pickler

We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to come here…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

I did what any good full-time working mother would do and left my screaming toddler with my husband for three weeks and convinced Comedy…

— Desi Lydic

“You have made me give up the hair Father gave me, the eyes Mother left me, the Color I was born to, so I…

— Pierce Brown

I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my father. My mother…

— Victor Mitchell

My mother left when I was ten...My father raised five kids and was there for me every day. I idolized my father and looked…

— Chad Michael Murray