Family Quote by Dolly Parton

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

— Audrey Niffenegger

“...my mother took a younger man as a lover. They spent all day in her boudoir, festering in each other's company.”

— Tash Aw

My mother was my first jealous lover.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of…

— Patsy Kensit

My mother was the love of my life.

— Colman Domingo

“Just us two men," my father said, my father who had so longed for a son that he had flown paper planes--adoption forms in…

— Marcus Samuelsson

My mother was an incredibly loving mother.

— Anna Quindlen

“You know now how deeply unhappy your mother was, and you also know that in his own fumbling way your father loved her, that…

— Paul Auster

My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in…

— John Edgar Wideman

“What could my mother be to yours? What kin is my father to yours anyway? And how did you and I meet ever? But…

— Vikram Chandra

There is a girl, who always loved me more than her life.. That girl was never my lover but my mother..

— Samuel Jebaraj

Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself as a…

— Paul Mellon