The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

I’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‚All right! Get out of the room.‘

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

I’m personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I’m not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

I’m an only child.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

I didn’t read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‚Mad Men‘ episode.

My mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

My mother insisted that her children read.

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that’s an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

I’ve always liked older ladies, ever since my mother would have B’nai B’rith at our house.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we’ve had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn’t want me to be.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

Except for the title ‚father,‘ there is no title, including ‚vice president,‘ that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.