I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mother never went to church, but she's the best Christian I know. My siblings have all chosen different paths to or away from their spirituality.
There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did the best with what they had. After the Depression, they were scratching out a living and working hard. They kept the family going.
At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people; nurture the belief that they can do things.
My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If I ever make it and have enough money, I'm going to make sure I dine in the best restaurants.'
Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.
My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.
I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning.
Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.
Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three.
My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
For Shama and her sisters and women like them, ambition, if the word could be used, was a series of negatives; not to be unmaried, not to be childless, not to be an undutiful daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow.
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.
