My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
T. D. Jakes
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within... →
C. L. R. James
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused... →
Rick James
On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its... →
Calamity Jane
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a... →
Eugene Jarecki
Ron Reagan amazingly qualifies as an honest broker. I asked him if he was a mama's boy and he said no, more of a papa's boy. At the same time... →
As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother's... →
Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
Jim Jarmusch
My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I... →
Al Jarreau
I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.
Robert Jarvik