Born Quote by David Baddiel

I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps mundane answer,…

— Herb Kelleher

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount…

— Conrad Veidt

I had spent my childhood and the better part of my early adulthood trying to understand my mother. She had been an extraordinarily difficult…

— Dani Shapiro

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above…

— Gene Simmons

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

— S. E. Hinton

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

— Louise Bourgeois

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

— Ralph H. Baer

I had a very difficult father. I lived in a war zone. My parents were very unhappy, and I lived through my mother's pain.…

— Penny Junor

In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered…

— Mona Eltahawy

My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on…

— Gene Simmons

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

— Ryan Murphy

It was my mother, despite the limitations placed on women of her time by society, who insisted I be allowed to go abroad to…

— Dalia Grybauskaite