He wasn't a great father. He was a great musician. That's always been a touchy one, and it will be until I can find the answer, but I... →
Julian Lennon
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
Sean Lennon
My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.
Donna Leon
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
Hugh Leonard
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
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
When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.
In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and... →
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the... →
Doris Lessing