My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty... →
Chris Abani
I like being a mother.
Amanda Abbington
My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.
Diane Abbott
The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's... →
Tony Abbott
When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and... →
Hawa Abdi
My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a... →
Sam Abell
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a... →
Peter Abrahams
Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.
I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was... →
Marina Abramovic