My mother and father always taught us that our only way out of poverty was through education.
My mother and father had been among those in favor, my mother more actively so, because she had more time.
Both my mother and father were raised by parents who lived through the Great Depression and who were very frugal.
We talked to the IRC and they helped us again to find an apartment and this time my mother and father found jobs.
My mother and father had those dreams for me.
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My mother and father, who were 15 at the time, were evacuated from Gibraltar and were brought to London where they spent four years working and then were transferred to Scotland for the final six months of their stay.
But I ate hot pot growing up in the 1970s and '80s in South Carolina, and if my mother and father could find enough ingredients there to prepare the gut-busting hot pot meals we had at our house, you can find them anywhere.
On that we could see what appeared to be pretty variable and informative patterns of DNA. Purely by chance, we had a family group on there, one of my technicians and a mother and father.
My mother was rabidly Irish and my father rabidly Catholic so it was perhaps inevitable that as a boy I would rabidly root for Notre Dame.
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Mr. RASHID: We sending back to our home to helping my mother, father and relative, neighbor, whatever they need money.
So after a few months, my mother's people sent me and my brother back to this little village in Arkansas to my grandmother, my father's mother who was raising me, and she used to braid my hair.
Ms. MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER (Singer): My name is Mary Chapin Carpenter, and I was named after both my father and my mother.
Growing up I lived with my mother, my father, two older siblings and my grandparents, and I can truly say that I had the best experiences in life.
One winter day, a pipe burst in our basement, and my mother had no idea what to do, so I called my father and figured out how to fix it.
I've lived here all my life and, before me, my mother lived here all her life and, before her, her father and grandfather.
Four nights per week Talk Time was with my mother and three nights with my father.
It was interesting: when my mother was around, my father always appeared weak minded and softhearted a slight, unnecessary, and mostly foolish human being.
To my father and mother, whose eyes were wide open with question, he showed the picture of my second brother printed in the morning edition of Kyoto Shimbun.
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Mr. Sullivan owned my mother and her children, but my father was owned by Mr. John Rector, whose place was adjacent to ours.
My father Leonel and mother Adriana have given me their support and have helped me a great deal and still to this day I can always count on them.
And I make a very good salary, but just going through caring for my mother the last year and a half, and before that, my father, who, thank God, lived to ripe old ages -- it was -- it's not easy.
Before moving to Manila, my parents had come to the U.S. in the 1960s to pursue their dreams of higher education, my father at Yale and my mother at New York University.
My father in law and late mother in law had a pair of Longines for around 30 years, and other than their wedding rings, this was really their only indulgent heirloom, a big deal for them.
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My mother wrote letters to my father in the summer she rode with the Freedom Riders, and you know, I think that even as she might have imagined such a moment, I don't know if she would have believed that it could occur in her lifetime.
In the waiting room as we checked into the hospital, his father sat next to my mother and I remember the image of him exactly: olive skin, broad face, and long shiny hair, his head held in his big hands as if it had cut loose from his body.
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