Against Quote by Tim Finchem

My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.

— Irina Shayk

When my father died, I was nine or 10, and my mother was like a dad and a mom to me. She raised me…

— Sonita Alizadeh

To get me in to the Army underage, my mother signed me in saying that my birth certificate was lost in a fire in…

— Robert Downey Sr

When I was 12, my mother passed away from heart failure, leaving us in grief and in debt from her medical bills.

— Arnel Pineda

My dad's a journalist, and he travelled a lot when I was young. There is no way my mother could have done that.

— Raquel Cassidy

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

— Sam Donaldson

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

— Ghostface Killah

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father…

— Quincy Jones

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

— Erma Bombeck

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

— Louise Bourgeois

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news,…

— Robert Harris

My dad passed away when I was 10.

— Sterling K. Brown