Firsts Quote by Eva Gabor

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty,…

— Jill Lepore

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was…

— Novak Djokovic

My father, Prince Aly Khan, and mother divorced when I was only 3. I used to spend summers with him in the South of France.

— Yasmin Aga Khan

My father took my mother, me, and my brother from Sicily to New York. He got us one-way tickets but booked himself a return…

— Paulie Malignaggi

My mother was really loving and wonderful and tough as hell.

— David Copperfield

My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there…

— Blake Bailey

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

— Sidney Poitier

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart,…

— Lisa Bonet

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a…

— Jacob Rothschild

My father left the family right after I was born, so my mother was working every single day to support me and my brothers.

— Gabriel Jesus

I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital…

— Nick Earls